An international research team has discovered various mechanisms in asexual mites that generate genetic diversity and thus ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the ...

because evolution is the general framework for understanding the history, current state and possible future of all living organisms. In my opinion, this is a fundamental shift in thinking ...

Even in a world of absolute equals, small strokes of luck can shape survival and evolutionary success in nature.

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

“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 ...

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...

Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but a new software package developed by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station offers researchers a better way to simulate how organisms change over ...

This discovery sheds light on the evolution and adaptation of photosynthetic organisms and could potentially lead to new, highly efficient systems for producing renewable solar fuels. The research ...