When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the beastly forces of natural selection lost their ability to shape our species, ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

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When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the strongest plant produces more seeds, and the most ...

In natural populations, the mechanisms of evolution do not act in isolation. This is crucially important to conservation geneticists, who grapple with the implications of these evolutionary processes ...

This post is the second in a series on evolutionary medicine, the application of the principles of evolution to the understanding of health and disease. Read the previous entry here. It's a basic ...

It turns out where certain desert shrubs grow matters a lot — especially when it comes to making sure they don’t all end up looking the same. FIU assistant professor in the Institute of Environment ...