Tag: Natural selection
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...
Natural selection in action: Hurricanes Irma and Maria affected island lizards
Colin Donihue, Harvard University
The Turks and Caicos anole is a small brown lizard found running through the undergrowth in the Turks and Caicos Islands....
Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions...
Katherine L. Petrie, University of California San Diego and Justin Meyer, University of California San Diego
Evolutionary biologists like us try to figure out how...
EXPLORING NATURE
Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many...
