A group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania believe ADHD may have been an evolutionary adaptation going back as far as 12,000 years ago. To see if this theory is plausible ...
An example of parallel evolution can be seen in the development of similar body shapes and adaptations in aquatic animals ...
Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...
In each case, evolutionary adaptations allow them to exploit a food niche of ants and termites, but the developments occurred independently.
Researchers have found that superpowers may be real, but they may not be what we expect. In research collected for her upcoming book Superpowered, author Erika Engelhaupt revealed that scientists ...
Cichlid fishes exhibit differing degrees of curiosity. The cause for this lies in their genes, as reported by researchers ...
Few subjects in evolutionary theory have posed such intriguing puzzles for so long as the origin of birds. Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light ...
Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look ...
In this major work Lloyd Evans provides an integrated view of the domestication, adaptation, and improvement of crop plants ... ground and has created a whole new way to look at crop plant evolution ...