The “Frozen Evolution” Myth A popular assumption says medicine, technology, and home comforts have put humanity beyond the ...

A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during ...

Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution is always causing things to change, they ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have uncovered new ...

How will life on Earth and the ecosystems that support it adapt to climate change? Which species will go extinct – or evolve into something new? How will microbes develop further resistance to ...

Ever wonder why there are so many different versions of the same animal? From dinosaurs to Darwin to debating the current pace of ...

By tracking neural crest cells in catshark embryos, researchers discovered that the molecular toolkit behind face-building is ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page. Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, ...