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.
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 ...
Ever since Charles Darwin published his landmark theory of how species evolve, biologists have been fascinated with the ...
Body shape, color, and behavior often evolve together as species adapt to their environment. Researchers from Lund University ...
Evolution is often thought to take over hundreds or thousands of years. But a recent study has found a species of frog which has evolved over within about 25 years. The adaptation was spurred by salt.
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 ...
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 ...
Animal and plant populations have been extensively studied, which has helped to understand ecosystem processes and evolutionary adaptations. However, this has not been the case with microbial ...