What happens when you let evolution play out inside a video game? From digital creatures adapting in real-time to entire ...

Natural selection isn’t the only factor driving evolution, says Laurence D Hurst. And it’s happening faster than ever before Wednesday 21 November 2018 12:49 GMT ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

Proteins act as machines within cells to carry out various functions. They are often composed of an assembly of smaller ...

It's about the mechanisms responsible for evolution, and why Darwin's contribution--natural selection-- is not the only one, contrary to many popular accounts. At Pharyngula, PZ Myers elaborates : ...

Here’s how natural selection will affect human evolution at some point in the future. It’s not so much a tale of our interconnectedness with other species as a tale of our interconnectedness ...

In fact, natural selection often leads to ever greater simplicity. And, in many cases, complexity may initially arise when selection is weak or absent . If you don't use it, you tend to lose it.

So it is with the evolution of the human brain—which gave rise to the human mind. It was not purely the result of natural selection. As Miller argues--convincingly-- it is no less a product of ...

A strange tiny species of crustacean has challenged the way we think about natural selection and evolution. This microscopic animal, known as a water flea or Daphnia pulex, generates genetic ...

Some are harmful and are likely to be eliminated by natural selection – by death of the embryo, for instance. Most make no difference to our bodies, because most of our DNA is useless junk anyway.

Evolution by natural selection is one of the best ideas in all of science. It predicts and explains an incredibly wide range of biological facts. But only 60% of Americans believe evolution is true.