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

Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now developed a method that allows for the first time to ...

The universal genetic code, used by nearly all living organisms may be in need of a rewrite. Story by Joseph Shavit ... suggests that traditional models of genetic code evolution need revision.

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 ...

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

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

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.

Among them is a study on the initial differentiation mechanisms of sexual chromosomes in Australian marsupials that provides a new perspective on the evolution of sex in mammals. "The Tree of Sex ...

They are likened to ‘living fossils’ due to their age and supposed similarities to ancient ancestors. Over the past 410 million years, more than more than 175 species of coelacanths have been ...