A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Evolutionary biochemistry aims to dissect the evolutionary processes and physical mechanisms by which biological molecules diversified and to reveal how their physical architecture facilitates and ...

Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

David Toews works for Pennsylvania State University. He receives funding from The National Science Foundation. People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the ...

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Researchers have created the most detailed evolutionary tree of birds to date. It proposes an entirely new group of birds that connects the smallest flying birds to the largest, as well as showing in ...

For women looking to pass on their genes, it pays to be short. For men, tall is the ideal. The result? An evolutionary tug-of-war in which neither gender reaches their perfect height. Those are the ...

When a feline gets threatened, it engages in a suite of behaviors that seem to have the purpose of facilitating its own survival. A cat will growl angrily. It will arch its back. And even the fur on ...

TITLES AND names in Marvel often convey a lot about someone’s intentions or abilities. To wit: Invisible Woman—pretty straightforward! It’s about the same for the High Evolutionary, the main villain ...