The US botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey published a paper in 1894 pondering whether the formulation of neo-Darwinism, the mainstream version of evolutionary theory, needed extending (it didn’t); in ...

Cope's Rule, a classic evolutionary theory, states that animals tend to grow larger through evolutionary time. But there are lots of examples to the contrary, like some lizards, many types of ...

University of Auckland evolutionary biologist and his colleagues applied a probabilistic model to three cases of evolution: cephalopods (including octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and vampire ...

As we report on page 11, identifying evolutionary drivers is essential if, for example, we are to get ahead of a bird flu pandemic, as well as understanding how species will adapt to climate change.