Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

Some colorful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

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Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

Have you ever come across a statement like this: “I can’t believe that something as beautiful and complex as the human eye could be the result of a random process like evolution”? Or this: “It seems ...

In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while ...

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how are certain traits "chosen" for future generations, and how are others cast ...