Tag: natural selection

Genomic analysis shows that two varieties of the forest herb Aspidistra daibuensis are not each other's closest relatives, prompting a ...

A new study using the FACE framework found that Slovenia's 2025 curriculum reform introduced substantially more evolutionary content in earlier ...

A new perspective argues that liquid–liquid phase separation should be studied as an evolvable molecular phenotype shaped by natural selection.

A 2026 study in two insect-pathogenic bacterial genera found that selection, genetic drift and biased recombination jointly shaped the evolution ...

Cave biologist Daniel Wu Fong, whose decades of quantitative genetic and molecular work on the amphipod Gammarus minus demonstrated that ...

A new PNAS study finds identical genetic changes independently evolved in jellyfish lineages separated by more than 600 million years, ...

A new comparative genomic study finds that small long-lived mammals like bats rely on DNA repair and autophagy while large ...

A decades-long study of Dutch great tits shows that post-selective immigration, not selection alone, governs whether clutch size evolves or ...

A new PLOS Genetics study finds that bacterial gene positions along the chromosome show gradients in mean and growth-dependent expression ...

A study of Trinidadian guppies finds that ancient chromosomal inversions, some millions of years old, are maintained by female preference ...

A new study shows that zebrafish lacking a key protein-absorption gene gradually recover over generations through genome-wide transcriptional changes that ...

A defining characteristic of all life is its ability to evolve. However, the fact that biologically engineered systems will evolve ...