THE title of this little book is misleading. Far from offering any account of evolution without natural selection, the author habitually ascribes to natural selection the lion's share of the work ...

As conditions change, so does life. It evolves. Evolution is driven by a process called natural selection. And there's no better place to see how it works than in the forests of Madagascar.

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns ...

The role of natural selection in evolution was formulated only a little more than a hundred years ago, and the selective role of the environment in shaping and maintaining the behavior of the ...

They weren't at all certain that natural populations contained enough genetic variation for natural selection to create ... Simpson argued that the evolution of mammals, as seen in their ...

Alternative thinking on the evolution of species is a welcome way to highlight some neglected aspects of life on Earth, but ...

Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes ...

In our Centre for Evolution and Cancer, researchers apply Darwin’s principle of natural selection within ecosystems to ...

Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution—not evolution itself. "Natural" refers to how traits are passed on without intentional outside interference. (In contrast, "artificial selection" is ...

Papers published in the journals Nature and Science have used the bones to narrow down when Neanderthals and H. sapiens ...

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