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 ...
Body shape, color, and behavior often evolve together as species adapt to their environment. Researchers from Lund University ...
Bats have been found to evolve into bigger sizes in exactly the same way in separate locations, in a very rare example of ...
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 ...
Have you ever wondered how seemingly different organisms end up developing strikingly similar traits? Here's the evolutionary explanation.
Unlocking the Genetic Mysteries Behind Plant Adaptation: New Insights Into the Evolution of a Water-Saving Trait in the Pineapple Family (Bromeliaceae) Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have achieved ...
Researchers at the University of Vienna, along with collaborators from France, Germany, Switzerland and the U.S., have ...
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 ...
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 ...
Insect Ecology and Adaptation - research group studies diverse topics of insect ecology and evolution. Our model systems include both economically important forest insects (e.g. pine sawflies and bark ...