Co-evolution between host and pathogen is, in principle, a powerful determinant of the biology and genetics of infection and disease. Yet co-evolution has proven difficult to demonstrate rigorously in ...
A 30-year-long study of a small population of marine snail shows how evolution can adapt to environmental changes quite rapidly. This study revealed how a specific ecotype of the snail changed its ...
India, June 8 -- The Greatest fast forward: What Took Evolution 88 Million Years, Culture Fast-Forwarded in 300,000 In recent ...
Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce ...
NexFuture (13/5/2026): Butterflies and moths are famous in the animal kingdom for their ability to mimic one another, ...
A genomic study of human and selected nonhuman primate centromeres has revealed their unimaginable diversity and speed of evolutionary change. Although centromeres are vital to proper cell replication ...
FISH copy 39088007842362 has bookplate: Gift of Suzanne Ripley. STRIMAIN copy 39088015885700 has bookplate: Gift of Neal G. Smith. Evolutionary biology -- Species concepts and their application -- ...
A just-published article in the journal Nature—“Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia,” (Akbari et al, 15 April 2026)—describes how the development of agriculture in ...
Some variation is the result of differences in the surroundings, or what an individual does. This is called environmental variation. Humans, dogs and goldfish are examples of species. Different ...