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

Screen-centric lifestyles may be influencing human evolution through impacts on cognition, sleep, reproduction, and the microbiome, reshaping natural selection.

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the ...

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" — where a teacher was charged with the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. At ...

People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is ...

Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including natural selection, sexual selection and genetic drift.

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

The Natural Selection Tour unveiled winners Robin Van Gyn and Mikkel Bang at the final freeride snowboarding competition's stop in Alaska. Pro snowboarders Mark McMorris and Zoi Sadowski-Synnott ...

Molecular evolution articles from across Nature Portfolio Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence.