Investigating the signatures of natural selection can help elucidate the evolutionary adaptations that have allowed humans to withstand some of our most complex and challenging selective agents.
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 ...
An example of parallel evolution can be seen in the development of similar body shapes and adaptations in aquatic animals ...
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 ...
Eberhard emphasizes the complexity of the mechanisms that produce habituation and neural adaptation, "because greater ...
Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look ...
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 ...
An upcoming anime adaptation needs to replicate the tonal balance of the original if it has any hope of not repeating ...
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 ...