This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Introduction: Life’s macroevolutionary patterns—rapid post-extinction recoveries and bursts of novelty—are not fully explained by mutation and vertical descent alone. I introduce Biological Recycling ...

In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

Some colourful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Developed by Dr Simone Blomberg from The University of ...

Understanding the relationship between macro- and microevolutionary processes and their delimitation remains a challenge. This review focuses on the role of chromosomal rearrangements in plant ...

For all we know, penguins are built to tackle the extreme cold weather. But, turns out, the Ice Age was too harsh on them and these birds employed an ingenious survival tactic. The Last Glacial Period ...

For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods – say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that ...

M. T. Drott et al., Liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry data for “Microevolution in the pan-secondary metabolome of Aspergillus flavus and its potential macroevolutionary implications for ...

The 3-hour conversation, which racked up 5 million views on Rogan’s Youtube channel in just 3 days, left many online baffled after Carlson claimed, among other things, that scientists had “given up on ...

The Natural History Museum’s collections are helping scientists to get a handle on how evolution works. The digitisation of thousands of bird specimens is being used to try and explain some of the ...