Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...

Television nature programs and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of ...

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A surprising study on the behavior of unrelated lizards in very different parts of the world has demonstrated how evolution can lead to different species learning the same skills. The study documents ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract There is little evidence from nature that divergent natural selection is crucial to speciation. However, divergent selection is implicated if ...

The unexpected discovery of a new type of genetic variation suggests that natural selection -- the force that drives evolution -- is both more powerful and more complex than scientists have thought.

Evidence of natural selection for specific epigenetic variants within the womb has been identified, challenging preconceptions of prenatal DNA methylation. Recent research conducted in a multinational ...

Read chapters of Evolution 101 called #1) An introduction to evolution; #3) Mechanisms: the processes of evolution and #4) Microevolution. Use the readings on sexual selection and kin selection to ...