Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...

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He argued that certain adaptations, or mutations, can produce detrimental effects late in life that are not strongly selected against in evolution ... A good example is cellular senescence ...

Natural selection is the idea that organisms that are best suited to survive pass their traits down. Is it true that only the strong survive?

Evolution is an ongoing process ... then farmer to industrial worker — often drive these genetic adaptations. Another example of this is an apparent link between urban living and being better ...

"For example, we found evidence of convergent ... These methods will aim to detect complex patterns of adaptation by considering how various evolutionary forces simultaneously shape genetic ...

The evolutionary adaptation of wolves into domesticated dogs is one of the most intriguing examples of coevolution between humans and animals. This transformation, rooted in millennia of shared ...

But examples from the morphological ... colleagues identify a decline in the use of exaptation relative to adaptation in evolutionary biology literature and blame the trend on the lack of a ...

Several examples of replicated radiation have been found in ... “This collaborative work, spanning decades, has revealed a wonderful new system to study evolutionary adaptation,” said Ericka Edwards, ...