A new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges a longstanding idea that stems from ...

Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

Gabriel D. Victora's team has turned germinal centers into a living laboratory for one of biology's oldest questions: how ...

Evolutionary ecology examines how evolutionary processes—variation, inheritance and selection—shape the ecological patterns of species and communities, and in turn how ecological interactions ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes.

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Anjali Goswami thinks cats are perfect—not in the same way as the average cat person, out of admiration for their beauty, athleticism and independence of spirit, but from a scientific standpoint.