"Survival of the fittest" is the catch phrase of evolution by natural selection. While natural selection favors the most fit organisms around, evolutionary biologists have long wondered whether this ...

How do intermittent events like hurricanes impact natural selection? How do animals adapt to challenging weather? A ...

Why do we age and die? Aging, or senescence as it is sometimes called, is an inevitable progressive deterioration of physiological function with increasing age, demographically characterized by an age ...

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Natural selection leaves signatures in our genome that can be used to identify the genes that might underlie variation in disease resistance or drug metabolism. Signatures of natural selection are ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The evolutionary process that Charles Darwin discovered almost 150 years ago, responsible for ...

In fact, natural selection often leads to ever greater simplicity. And, in many cases, complexity may initially arise when selection is weak or absent. If you don’t use it, you tend to lose it.

Daphnia pulex (a.k.a. the water flea) is a microscopic crustacean whose unique reproduction habits make it the perfect species for studying evolution and natural selection. A new study looks at how ...

Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora and ...