New evidence proves humans are continuing to evolve and that significant natural and sexual selection is still taking place in our species in the modern world.

Biology - Evolution

Apr 30, 2012 4.1 / 5 (23) 98 |

A new study of giant viruses supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run amok, as some scientists have argued. The study reshapes the universal family ...

Biology - Evolution

Sep 13, 2012 4.8 / 5 (20) 2 |

A new paper published in the Royal Society’s Biology Letters journal, shows that early experimental studies of the peppered moth, as taught to many American high school students, are “completely cor ...

Biology - Evolution

Feb 28, 2012 4.7 / 5 (20) 56 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new hypothesis posed by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, associate professor and colleagues could be a game changer in the evolution arena. The hypothesis suggests some species are ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 04, 2012 4.2 / 5 (22) 15 |

(Phys.org) —A protein-folding simulation shows that the debated theory of long-term evolution is not only possible, but that the outcomes are predictable. The Stanford experiment provides a framework for ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 18, 2013 4.6 / 5 (20) 25 |

The key to solving one of the great puzzles in evolutionary biology, the origin of vertebrates -- animals with an internal skeleton made of bone -- has been revealed in new research from Dartmouth College ...

Biology - Evolution

Oct 20, 2010 4.7 / 5 (19) 7 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research on the DNA of wallabies, rodents, a number of mammals and bats has found it is likely the ancestors of the Ebola and lesser-known Marburg viruses were in existence tens of millions ...

Biology - Evolution

Jun 28, 2010 4.8 / 5 (18) 0 |

As described in an article published this week in an advance, online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the work demonstrates some of the classic principles of evolution. For in ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 29, 2009 4.7 / 5 (18) 6

(Phys.org) -- Giant insects ruled the prehistoric skies during periods when Earth's atmosphere was rich in oxygen. Then came the birds. After the evolution of birds about 150 million years ago, insects got ...

Biology - Evolution

Jun 04, 2012 4.7 / 5 (18) 2 |

Although advances in medical care have improved standards of living over time, humans aren't entirely sheltered from the forces of natural selection, a new study shows.

Biology - Evolution

Oct 19, 2009 4 / 5 (21) 36

For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one ancestral ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 29, 2009 4.6 / 5 (18) 2

New Yorkers are used to fighting each other for space, but there may be a new contender in town according to a Rockefeller study that appears to have uncovered a new species of cockroach.

Biology - Evolution

Dec 24, 2009 4.1 / 5 (20) 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Men die at higher rates than women across the lifespan. A new study suggests that this excess mortality is the price of reproductive competition.

Biology - Evolution

May 24, 2010 3.9 / 5 (21) 43 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists at the University of California, Riverside report new evidence for evolutionary change recorded in both the fossil record and the genomes (or genetic blueprints) of living organisms, ...

Biology - Evolution

Sep 04, 2009 4.6 / 5 (17) 42

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new replica of an early modern human brain has provided further evidence for the theory that the human brain has been shrinking. The skull belonged to an elderly Cro Magnon man, whose skeleton ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 15, 2010 3.9 / 5 (20) 38 |