How do intermittent events like hurricanes impact natural selection? A University of Rhode Island professor and colleagues ...

It is a common question — what's the most extraordinary scientific legacy of Charles Robert Darwin's vision of life? The ...

Gut bacteria evolve rapidly in response to different diets, UCLA evolutionary biologists report in a new study. The researchers found that gene variants that help microbes digest starches found in ...

Masisi, an orphan bonobo at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in Congo with Mistique the village dog. When thinking about evolution, Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, or “survival of the fittest,” ...

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Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora and ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...