Biological evolution is the heritable change in characteristics of biological populations over successive generations, driven by mechanisms such as mutation, recombination, genetic drift, gene flow, ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

In Part One of this series, we saw that culture doesn't suffer from the problem that Darwin's theory of natural selection successfully solved: the problem of how change accumulates in biological ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Co-led by Guojie Zhang from Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University, Dong-Dong Wu at Kunming Institute of Zoology, Xiao-Guang Qi at Northwest University, Li Yu at Yunnan ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it deserves to be called a new rule of life. Instead of always purging harmful ...

This post is Part 1 of a series. Creative Culture as an Evolutionary Process When I was a graduate student studying "artificial life," I developed what she thought was the first computational model of ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time ...

Difficult questions are often just simple concepts hidden in complex language. Mr. Ashok Kumar, PGT-Biology at Silverline ...