Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of ...

“DNA was left in the dust by cultural evolution,” he says, “but now it’s catching up.” Distant future: Can humans adapt to the red planet? Large-scale evolutionary divergence from the ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

People on the Tibetan Plateau have developed unique physiological traits over 10,000 years to thrive in low-oxygen conditions ...