Daniel Wu Fong, Biologist Who Proved Selection Shapes Cave Animals, Dies at 70
Cave biologist Daniel Wu Fong, whose decades of quantitative genetic and molecular work on the amphipod Gammarus minus demonstrated that ...
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Mating Systems and Mimicry Shape the Wings of Heliconius Butterflies
A geometric morphometric study of Heliconius butterflies reveals that mating systems and sex-specific reproductive pressures dominate wing shape evolution, while ...
Evolution May Push Complexity and Consciousness Upward, Review Argues
A new review argues that evolution contains several mechanisms that tend to increase complexity and that basic consciousness follows the ...
Evolution Repeats Itself: Jellyfish Genomes Reveal Identical Genetic Changes Across 600 Million Years
A new PNAS study finds identical genetic changes independently evolved in jellyfish lineages separated by more than 600 million years, ...
Bats and Whales Age Differently: Genomes Reveal Two Separate Roads to Long Life
A new comparative genomic study finds that small long-lived mammals like bats rely on DNA repair and autophagy while large ...
Immigration Holds the Key to Evolutionary Stasis and Change in Wild Great Tits
A decades-long study of Dutch great tits shows that post-selective immigration, not selection alone, governs whether clutch size evolves or ...
Where a Gene Sits on the Bacterial Chromosome May Shape Its Expression Through Selection
A new PLOS Genetics study finds that bacterial gene positions along the chromosome show gradients in mean and growth-dependent expression ...
Ancient Chromosomal Inversions Shape Sexual Traits in Wild Guppies
A study of Trinidadian guppies finds that ancient chromosomal inversions, some millions of years old, are maintained by female preference ...
Zebrafish Rewire Their Guts Over Generations to Survive Protein Starvation
A new study shows that zebrafish lacking a key protein-absorption gene gradually recover over generations through genome-wide transcriptional changes that ...
Evolution’s Hidden Compass: When Fitness Is Equal, Curvature Steers the Path
Technion researchers show that when multiple evolutionary paths offer equal fitness, populations deterministically drift toward flatter, more robust regions of ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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