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 ...
In each case, evolutionary adaptations allow them to exploit a food niche of ants and termites, but the developments occurred independently.
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 ...
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 ...
"Our results show that major initial adaptations are predictable, and as evolution progresses, this ability is lost," he explains. "In other words, the demon exists but is terribly shortsighted." ...
Another evolutionary adaptation: large flaps near the end of the penis that Stancer says “make a seal inside the female” so that tapirs can successfully breed underwater as well as on land.
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 ...
As a parent or carer of a young person with dyslexia, you are wearing many hats. In addition to all the work you were doing to support them emotionally and academically, you are now playing the ...
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 ...
We study the processes of plant adaptation. We address fundamental questions in plant evolutionary ecology using an integrative approach that includes techniques and theories from comparative genomics ...