Gut bacteria rapidly adapt to processed food additives, revealing how modern diets can reshape microbial evolution worldwide.

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

High mountains aren’t often thought of as being the most hospitable to life, but new research suggests they might be a crucial ingredient for driving evolution toward complexity. Ziyi Zhu and Ian ...

A new study on the evolutionary force titled "Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover" in the journal Science. (From left) University of Toronto Mississauga biology ...

Humans reshape the environments where they live, with cities being among the most profoundly transformed environments on Earth. New research now shows that these urban environments are altering the ...

Humanity is driving evolution on Earth. At least, that's what a new project involving 287 scientists across 160 cities in 26 different countries has suggested. That research suggests that over the ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not ...

Evolution is always happening, it just happens so slowly that it’s difficult to quantify in real time. However, now ...

Rapid climate changes over the past several decades have led to heritable, genetic changes in animals as diverse as squirrels, birds and mosquitoes, according to University of Oregon evolutionary ...

I bet many analysts have discussed this topic repeatedly, but a couple of research papers later, I realized how much of it remains uncovered by the average Joe. I began my research with the technical ...

Increasing frequent and intense fires are shaping how species change, according to a paper published last year in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. While previous research tended to focus on ...