New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed down to its offspring. To suggest otherwise can provoke ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Whether people follow a general trend when choosing a partner or consciously decide against it has a noticeable impact on the ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

Diffuse coevolution is also known as multi-species or guild coevolution. It occurs when several species collectively influence one another. An example is pollination systems in which plants interact ...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...

When I was a student teacher, I had a conversation with a science teacher I worked with about natural selection. I asked if she thought this process of survival of the fittest was a good thing.

Springy silicone, candy-coloured resin and second-hand cat figurines are among the materials used to create these shining examples of lamps spotted by Dezeen's design and interiors reporter Jane ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a ...

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