The version of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin focused on slow, incremental changes that only gradually build into the sort of differences that separate species. But that doesn’t rule out the ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited traits of populations through successive generations. To fully understand the science of ecology, one must first be able to grasp evolutionary concepts. Aa Aa ...

In 2017, unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey caused local extinctions of populations of soapberry bugs. This allowed researchers from Rice University and UC Davis to observe evolution at work ...

Digital evolution experiments show repeated environmental changes can push populations toward different long term outcomes.

Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All ...

It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself, ...

Even a single gene, reshuffled or regulated in new ways, can fuel repeated bursts of evolutionary innovation, according to a recent study of wheatear birds. A study was recently published in the ...

Every community comes to a crossroads: should they transform via evolution versus revolution? Make no mistake, transforming a local community is a complex undertaking that can be approached through ...

How do scientists diagram evolutionary relationships? Scientists represent evolutionary relationships with tree diagrams (also called cladograms) because new life forms appear the way new branches ...

HOUSTON – (Oct. 9, 2023) – With species the world over on the move due to climate change, a unique experiment in the wake of 2017’s Hurricane Harvey has revealed a way that species can instantly ...

How do scientists figure out relationships between living things? Some scientists compare every single feature of every single organism to try to work out their evolutionary relationships. But, ...