'Dispersal-driven' evolution fuels diversity at the air-liquid interface

As in a batch of kombucha or a barrel of sherry, microbes can assemble into a mat-like layer at the boundary between air and ...

Finger length could provide vital clue to understanding human brain evolution

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...
New Atlas

Ferns may have the ability to “evolve backward” to a more primitive form

Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early primate ape ancestor, Dryopithecus, and progressing toward modern man, Homo ...
Science Daily

Scientists just cracked the hidden rules of cancer evolution

Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...

Insights into evolutionary dynamics: Study reveals the evolution of evolvability

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...
PBS

Ernst Mayr and the Evolutionary Synthesis

Ironically, one great unsolved problem in Darwin's master work, On the Origin of Species, was just that: How and why do species originate? Darwin and his later followers were faced with a seeming ...