In parallel evolution, closely related species that live apart independently evolve similar traits when confronted with similar environmental challenges. For example, the ancestors of living ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) participated in a study, published in the Journal of ...

Scientists explore gene editing to restore genetic diversity and help endangered species adapt to disease, climate change, ...

The study identified direct evidence for the horizontal transfer of introners between a sea sponge and a type of marine protist known as a dinoflagellate. There is genetic data that about 40 million ...

To test whether post-mating selection processes also favored conspecific males, researchers observed matings between female fruit flies and males of the same species or a closely related species ...

The structure of the sugarcane genome allows very different species to be combined by hybridisation. In the nucleus of this hybrid, the chromosomes from Saccharum officinarum are coloured green ...

It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book " On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for ...

First human species: Homo habilis, which lived from about 2.0 to 1.6 million years ago Number of species on Earth: Around 9 million You can thank evolution for the diversity of life, from ...