A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist generations after the initial event. The escalating effects of climate change ...

A new paper examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology -- habituation and neural adaptation -- on the efficacy of mate choice ...

A study led by JGU provides the first direct evidence that species that never interact can profoundly influence each other's evolution, challenging a long-held focus on direct interactions in ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...

Evolution is a fundamental building block of biology that underpins our understanding of the diversity of life today and how we, as humans, came to be who we are. Despite these truisms, almost half of ...

Long before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, lively debates about evolution flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. Virtually unknown to many ...