In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

Understanding the relationship between macro- and microevolutionary processes and their delimitation remains a challenge. This review focuses on the role of chromosomal rearrangements in plant ...

A long-held theory involving the quickened pace of evolution over short time frames could be explained by an “anomaly” revealed by researchers in a new study. This idea tends to hold that organisms ...

The study blends math, statistics and biology to show that this long-held hyperbolic pattern is an anomaly because it doesn't account for the fact that all species on earth are defined as much by ...

For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods – say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that ...

M. T. Drott et al., Liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry data for “Microevolution in the pan-secondary metabolome of Aspergillus flavus and its potential macroevolutionary implications for ...

Researchers have demonstrated that the capacity for rapid adaptation within a few generations, known as evolvability, can also explain species divergence over millions of years. By analyzing extensive ...

Darwin noted how different finches from the Galapagos Island developed different kinds of beaks, based on the food that they specialized in eating. Later studies showed how rapid fluctuations in seed ...

Ever since Darwin published his landmark theory of how species evolve, biologists have been fascinated with the intricate mechanisms that make evolution possible. Can mechanisms responsible for the ...

ABSTRACT: Starting from the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a rising interest, in modern scientific theories, about the notion of emergence. Its compatibility and explanatory ...

This year—2021—has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human evolution research. With some research projects around the world back up and running, we wanted ...