Day 1 of the inaugural Natural Selection Surf contest has just wrapped and it didn't disappoint. First and foremost–the surf ...

A classic example of natural selection at work is the origin of giraffes’ long necks. The ancestors of modern giraffes were animals similar to deer or antelope, with necks of ordinary length.

Note that this change was not due to pollution making the moths darker. The dark variety had always existed in small numbers, but only had a selective advantage when the selection pressure changed.

This is because natural selection acts to increase the prevalence of highly advantageous alleles, over time generating common resistance alleles of especially strong effect. For example ...

Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans is still in an early stage ...

So this animal is a beautiful example, probably one of the best in the world, of how the sieve of natural selection produces animals that are perfectly adapted to live in their environment.

Q: Tell us about this "dangerous idea" of Darwin's. A: I think Darwin's idea of natural selection is the best idea anybody ever had, ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein. What it does is it promises ...

He revolutionaised the field of natural history from his theory of natural selection. His book named "The Origins of Species" was published in 1859, where he argued that all present-day life forms ...

The phrase "survival of the fittest" functions principally in evolutionary theory to describe the biological concept of ...

The time for speculating is over. We now know the roster of the debut Natural Selection Tour (NST) ski event. If you clicked on this article, you came for those names, so we’ll lead there. Keep ...

In natural selection, genetic mutations that are beneficial to an individual’s survival are passed on through reproduction. This results in a new generation of organisms that are more likely to ...