(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Behind the stillness of desert landscapes, cacti appear to be changing in unexpected ways. The cactus on your windowsill may ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according to a new study. In the past, scientists believed that hominin evolution was largely driven by changes in climate. But now, ...

Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every ...

Scientists discover that fast-changing cactus flowers, not size or pollinators, are behind the rapid evolution of new cactus species.

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have ...

FISH copy 39088007842362 has bookplate: Gift of Suzanne Ripley. STRIMAIN copy 39088015885700 has bookplate: Gift of Neal G. Smith. Contents Evolutionary biology -- Species concepts and their ...