The theory of evolution, worked out in the nineteenth century by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, with many tweaks since, is one of the most well-supported theories in science. Evidence from ...

Convergent evolution is the process by which two unrelated species independently evolve similar features to adapt to similar problems or habitats. Modern-day examples of convergent evolution are the ...

We share the planet with a huge diversity of plants and creatures. But we can see similarities between organisms that live continents apart or are very different in other aspects. One reason for this ...

Cancer clone evolution, just like evolutionary speciation, is characterised by an extraordinary diversity of descendants derived from a common ancestor. Yet, paradoxically, some evolutionary ...

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, ...

Evolution is so 'predictable' that if all life on Earth was wiped out, eventually a mirror-image of today's fauna would evolve, a new study of 10,000 birds claims. The study looked at how the body ...