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

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

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

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

Alien creatures may feel like pure fiction, but some of their most disturbing traits already exist in nature. Parasitic ...

Scientists in India have identified a new cockroach species, Neoloboptera peninsularis, using a comprehensive integrative ...

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

A mass mating event in the lab reveals how yeast cells choose partners - and what predicts the success of their offspring.

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

Published on A study by UNIGE and EMBL shows how differences in tissue mechanical properties shape the diversity of forms ...