Review of How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals About Male Health and Mortality. By Richard G. Bribiescas. Princeton University Press. 177 pp. $24.95 Although he and his wife eat similar foods, jog, are ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

The open-access journal Biological Diversity has launched a call for papers for a special issue on the evolutionary ...

The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now ...

A research team from the University of Bern has shown in a large-scale field experiment that populations of the same fish species can be much more fine-tuned to their local environments than ...

New phylogenomic analysis reveals that three ECSA sub-lineages of chikungunya virus each evolved distinct mosquito-adaptation ...

Natural selection is an important evolutionary force that enables humans to adapt to new environments and fight disease-causing pathogens. However, the unique footprints of natural selection in our ...

At some point in evolutionary history, whales and dolphins passed a threshold their bodies could never recover from.

Experimental evolution harnesses controlled laboratory regimes to unravel the principles of genetic adaptation across generations. By exposing replicate populations of microorganisms, invertebrates ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we discuss the differences between e-cigarettes (vapes) and far-less-studied dry herb vaporizers. Then we talk about some of the incredible evolutionary ...

Okay, it may be a stretch of the term “fun,” but stingray stingers are a pretty wicked evolutionary development. The barbed stingers are a metal method of self defense, and look at that face—this fish ...