Professor Brian Cox: Ever since life began, it's been diversifying. As conditions change, so does life. It evolves. Evolution is driven by a process called natural selection. And there's no better ...

Molecular evolutionary biologist Masatoshi Nei says Darwin never proved natural selection is the driving force of evolution — because it isn't. In a cavernous concert hall, before an eager audience of ...

The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 remains poorly understood. Theory predicts a group-structured population with selection acting principally at two levels: the pathogen individuals and the group of ...

Much of what we think we know about human evolution has largely been attributed to natural selection – namely that species evolve by adapting to their environments. But Lauren Schroeder, a ...

Heritable variation is the key to evolution -- it supplies the raw material on which natural selection acts. Darwin's famous Galapagos Island finches displayed great variation in the size and shape of ...