Using a revolutionary computer program that gives scientists the opportunity to watch evolution take place before their eyes using "digital organisms," a team of researchers from Michigan State ...

Research in evolutionary developmental biology, known as "evo-devo," is being held back because the dominant model organisms used by scientists are unable to illustrate key questions about evolution, ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...

Evolution is the accepted explanation for life's diversity today, but there are still some holes in the process that we don't understand. To peer back in time at certain key steps, scientists at the ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and ...

Matthew Wills, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath and Tim Rock, PhD Candidate in Biology, University of Bath Large species tend to evolve ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

Evolution education in the United States remains controversial and challenging. This is in part due to the difficulty educators face when trying to overcome students’ preexisting beliefs about ...

Students will compare the sequence of amino acids in a gene shared between humans and six other organisms and infer evolutionary relationships among the species. In the NOVA scienceNOW segment Bird ...