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

Someone once asked me “Is evolution still happening?” My brief answer was “Of course, it’s always happening.” I would have gone on to explain a bit, but the questioner turned and walked away. That ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

A study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

A genetic study has unveiled that two Neanderthals who lived approximately 10,000 years apart in Siberia's famous Denisova Cave were distant relatives. This remarkable discovery provides the fourth ...

Example of a spatial configuration of a 2D expanding and evolving colony of cells, a typical simulation representing an example with 3 mutations. The individual graphs represent different snapshots in ...

The concept of punctuated equilibrium was, to some, a radical new idea when it was first proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for one ...

Tracking the origin and evolution of human populations in Arabia / Jeffrey I. Rose and Michael D. Petraglia -- The Red Sea, coastal landscapes, and hominin dispersals / Geoff Bailey -- Pleistocene ...

In an unprecedented field experiment, an international research team led by Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of ...

We are delighted to present the second edition of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution's 'Women in Population, Community and Ecosystem Dynamics” article ...