Imagine a world where the very ground beneath your feet dictates your chances of survival. For the snowshoe hare and the ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 208 No. 5 (May 1963), p. 45 doi:10.1038 ...

More information: James T. Stroud et al, Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08597-9 Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology ...

Global research team explores how environmental factors and dispersal barriers influence biodiversity. Why do certain plants ...

In the summer of 1925, when William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clashed over the teaching of evolution in Dayton, Tennessee, the Scopes trial was depicted in newspapers across the country ...

A novel paper is widening understanding of how species interact within ecosystems via the so-called 'Internet of Nature.' The paper reveals that species not only exchange matter and energy but also ...

If so, it changes our view of the evolution of tetrapods, whose ancestors were believed to drag themselves by their forefins, only developing useful hind legs once ensconced on land. As for what ...

Their paper, "Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment," was published in Nature as the journal's cover story in March. "We set out to explore how organisms make the ...