Life quickly finds a way: The surprisingly swift end to evolution's big bang
The Cambrian explosion more than 500 million years ago is often considered biology's "big bang".
Evolution
Feb 19, 2019
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News tagged with adaptive evolution
Poxviruses defeat antiviral defenses by duplicating a gene
Scientists have discovered that poxviruses, which are responsible for smallpox and other diseases, can adapt to defeat different host antiviral defenses by quickly and temporarily producing multiple copies of a gene that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2012
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Subtle shifts, not major sweeps, drove human evolution
The most popular model used by geneticists for the last 35 years to detect the footprints of human evolution may overlook more common subtle changes, a new international study finds.
Evolution
Feb 17, 2011
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New book explores relentless evolution in a constantly changing world
When we look around in nature, most species seem well adapted to their environment. Scientists have found, however, that species evolve relentlessly and that evolutionary changes occur at a surprisingly rapid pace.
Evolution
Apr 18, 2013
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Culture not genes drives humans forward
Evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading Professor Mark Pagel argues that our cultural influences are more important to our success as a species than our genes in his new book published this week.
Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2012
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Pollution-loving plants key to predicting adaptation to environmental change
Environmental change is happening so quickly that wild organisms can't keep up, and face substantial challenges. But some organisms may be able to adapt surprisingly rapidly to new circumstances. Predicting which species ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2021
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Two-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments
In an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on October 21, 2009, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution National ...
Archaeology
Oct 21, 2009
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Large-scale study of adaptation in yeast could help explain the evolution of cancer
Genes provide instructions to cells in the body telling them what to do and not do in order to function optimally. Small changes in genes, called mutations, can have major consequences. Similar to a glitch in a computer's ...
Evolution
Jul 18, 2017
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Scientists gain new insights into dolphin's evolutionary history and conversation
Researchers from Nanjing Normal University and BGI report their original genomic research on Baiji, also known as Yangtze River dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer). The study gives new insight into the genetic and evolutionary adaptations ...
Biotechnology
Oct 29, 2013
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You are what you eat: How the pursuit of carbs changed mammals' genes and saliva
Starch, a complex carbohydrate, is a vital source of nutrition for many mammals. Humans farm it in the form of rice, wheat, corn, potatoes and oats. Rats comb our garbage piles for scraps of pizza and bread. Wild boars root ...
Evolution
May 14, 2019
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