When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how are certain traits "chosen" for future generations, and how are others cast ...

The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed down to its offspring. To suggest otherwise can provoke ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

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A study reveals that sticklebacks with complete bony plates have survival rates several percentage points higher than those with reduced plates, indicating ongoing natural selection. Moreover, the ...

It's widely assumed within the evolutionary biology field that weak selection provides an advantage to an organism's ability to evolve. But new research may offer the first experimental proof that ...

Masisi, an orphan bonobo at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in Congo with Mistique the village dog. When thinking about evolution, Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, or “survival of the fittest,” ...

Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora and ...

Some say that war is the engine of human history. The same could be said about wildlife and the ecosystems they inhabit. Recent research has examined how the Russo-Ukrainian conflict has affected the ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...