Evolution is slow, but with the right experimental set-up—and enough time to spare—you can watch nature do its methodical ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought.

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...

New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze ...

Evolutionary psychology provides a foundational framework for understanding how cognitive and behavioral traits have evolved in response to recurring ...

We humans evolved to be social creatures. By gaining the skills to cooperate with others, we were able to stave off predators, eat more consistently, and care for each other’s young, allowing our ...

Evolutionary biochemistry aims to dissect the evolutionary processes and physical mechanisms by which biological molecules diversified and to reveal how their physical architecture facilitates and ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Discover how evolutionary economics explains economic change, emphasizing psychological influences and societal dynamics, with historic insights and practical examples.