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A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...

Darwin thought that evolution took place over hundreds or ... The Grants had documented natural selection in action. While beak size is clearly related to feeding strategies, it is also related ...

Each lizard is unique. Some have longer legs, others stronger jaws, and all behave slightly differently. The differences ...

Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes ...

Only a human being could make such conscious decisions. This is why the species Homo sapiens is the apex of evolution. Natural selection is at one and the same time a blind and creative process.

This is because natural selection acts to increase the prevalence ... They have had a tremendous impact on our evolution, and they, themselves, evolve over time. The great effect that pathogens ...

In fact, it is this facet of natural selection that is easily and massively documented in the DNA record of evolution. “Variations neither useful nor injurious...would be left a fluctuating ...

The theory of evolution is dominated by the utilitarian logic of natural selection: adapt or die, survival of the fittest.

Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin. Wallace was born in 1823 in Usk - now in Monmouthshire. After leaving school he ...

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Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...