Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better fit the places they live.It is why life takes "such ...

A study led by Sawsan Wehbi, a doctoral student in genetics, suggests that traditional models of genetic code evolution need ...

Living Organisms: an Account of their Origin and Evolution. By Prof. Edwin S. Goodrich. Pp. 200. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1924.) 6s ...

All the living things that we can see evolved from those that we can’t. Every human, bird, tree, and flower can trace its ancestry across a few billion years back to microscopic, single-celled ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

The common ancestor of all present-day living organisms has been partly deciphered. ... in work published in July in the scientific journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.

All living things must also contend with a universal physical constraint noted by Galileo Galilei. Bigger cells tend to have less surface area per unit of volume.

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the ...

You as an organism are a product of evolution by natural selection. Your structure, your anatomy is something that was written into your genome. That’s not how the Earth system formed.

The concept of living fossils has long fascinated scientists and laypeople alike. It describes organisms that appear remarkably similar to their ancient ancestors in the fossil record. The term ...