How do you know that finches' beak depth is heritable? You can see from Figure 2 that there is a correlation between the parents' and offsprings' beak size. How did the finch population change ...

Ahead of the presidential runoff on Sunday, here are five key facts about Ecuador, previously among South America's most ...

Common examples include the fossil record, the peppered moth, antibiotic resistance in bacteria and Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands. Past paper trend: Evolution is one of the three ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

Corinthia Black studies the anatomical features of fishes and spiders to understand how life on Earth takes shape ...

Mar. 31, 2025 — A study presents a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is ... New Species Revealed ...

Footprints of tail-clubbed armored dinosaurs, ankylosaurids, have been discovered for the first time, thanks to fossil ...

and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of brain evolution and demonstrate that, while ...

Bacterial evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of bacteria over multiple generations. It occurs through mechanisms including natural selection and genetic drift, and can ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

At least you’d have some decent reading. So I ask Charles Finch, whose own Wikipedia page (printed out or otherwise) tells me, rather limitingly, that he’s a ‘businessman and film producer’, what it ...