Virginia Tech study unveils 2 billion years of evolution, highlighting the 'boring billion,' Snowball Earth, and ancient ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, ...

So it is with ecology: Evolution provides a canon by which we may better understand the interactions of organisms with their environments. In this section, we define evolution as it is understood ...

Project leader Professor Dan Macqueen emphasized the significance of these duplications in shaping the course of life on our ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve “backward” ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we ... one of somewhere between 5 and 100 million distinct types of organisms living on Earth today. Incredibly, the story of how you are related ...

Scientists discovered that choanoflagellates coordinate their movements through electrical signaling via voltage-gated ...

NASA defines life as a "self-sustaining chemical reaction capable of Darwinian evolution." That means organisms with a complex chemical system that evolve by adapting to their environment.

Later, animals - multicellular organisms - evolved, developing from a single cell, the egg cell, to form complex beings. This ...

The adaptations of organisms allow them to thrive in different habitats, including extreme environments. Evolution explains how better adapted organisms have an advantage and are more likely to ...

A research team has clarified a mechanism of how retrotransposons, genetic elements that can 'jump around' chromosomes and are known drivers of evolution, preferentially insert in the centromere.