Tag: natural selection

A new evolutionary theory by UC Riverside researcher Bryan Jennings suggests that changes in body size, rather than competition, may ...

Genomic analysis shows that two varieties of the forest herb Aspidistra daibuensis are not each other's closest relatives, prompting a ...

A new study using the FACE framework found that Slovenia's 2025 curriculum reform introduced substantially more evolutionary content in earlier ...

A new perspective argues that liquid–liquid phase separation should be studied as an evolvable molecular phenotype shaped by natural selection.

A 2026 study in two insect-pathogenic bacterial genera found that selection, genetic drift and biased recombination jointly shaped the evolution ...

Cave biologist Daniel Wu Fong, whose decades of quantitative genetic and molecular work on the amphipod Gammarus minus demonstrated that ...

A geometric morphometric study of Heliconius butterflies reveals that mating systems and sex-specific reproductive pressures dominate wing shape evolution, while ...

A new review argues that evolution contains several mechanisms that tend to increase complexity and that basic consciousness follows the ...

A new PNAS study finds identical genetic changes independently evolved in jellyfish lineages separated by more than 600 million years, ...

A new comparative genomic study finds that small long-lived mammals like bats rely on DNA repair and autophagy while large ...