Tag: Natural selection
‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse
Thomas Morgan, Arizona State University
While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group...
Amid a tropical paradise known as ‘Lizard Island,’ researchers are cracking...
James T. Stroud, Georgia Institute of Technology
Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban...
Ferns’ ability to evolve ‘backward’ offers insights into the meandering path...
Jacob S. Suissa, University of Tennessee
Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d...
By ‘helping’ wild animals, you could end their freedom or even...
Julian Avery, Penn State
For anyone who enjoys nature, summer is a fascinating time to be outside. Animals are...
What is sex really for?
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
Few topics arouse as much interest and controversy as sex. This is hardly surprising. The biological continuance of the species hinges...
Fast evolution explains the tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ from Flores...
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Universidade Federal de Goias and Pasquale Raia, University of Naples Federico II
It’s not every day that scientists discover a new...
Evolution doesn’t proceed in a straight line – so why draw...
Quentin Wheeler, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Antonio G. Valdecasas, CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and...
Sexual selection in action: Birds that attract multiple mates change their...
Nicole Creanza, Vanderbilt University and Kate Snyder, Vanderbilt University
How do individuals choose their mates? Why are some more successful at attracting mates than others?
These...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
