For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

Mastering tenses is fundamental to effective communication in English. This comprehensive guide provides an in-depth exploration of various tenses, offering clear explanations, illustrative examples, ...

The inaugural Natural Selection Surf is officially a wrap, with Australians Milla Coco Brown and Soli Bailey emerging as the first-ever champions. An electric two-day showdown in Micronesia’s ...

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 ...

Physiological traits that help Tibetan women survive at high altitudes are being selected for within the population, meaning they may be becoming more common, new research hints. When you purchase ...

The opening joke of Matt Rife’s Netflix special, Natural Selection, is set at a restaurant in Baltimore, a city Rife describes as “ratchet.” The hostess has a black eye, Rife tells the crowd, which ...

Natural opioids, or opiates, are a class of pain relief medications that derive from the opium poppy. They help relieve painful sensations by preventing pain signals from the body to the brain.

New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its ...

Why do humans make so many laws? In a new article, I argue that the human ability to make laws evolved by natural selection. Here are a few snapshots. Laws may seem unlikely to come from evolution.

A team of global experts has discovered new signals of natural selection in humans. Led by UC Santa Barbara Tsimane Health and Life History Project co-director Michael Gurven, the team studied two ...

Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New research at the University of Tokyo has mapped the ...