Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

A chance discovery in a Vermont cheese cave has given scientists a rare glimpse of evolution unfolding in real time – and the ...

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Scientists studied water fleas to reveal how natural selection subtly operates in stable environments, offering insights into ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...

Berkeley -- An international team of researchers has documented a remarkable example of natural selection in a tropical butterfly species that fought back - genetically speaking - against a highly ...