The adaptations of organisms allow ... Extinction can be for other reasons than evolution. Many are caused by humans. For example hunting, destruction of habitats and global warming.

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 ...

Evolution is the basis of biological diversity, driven by mechanisms that allow organisms to adapt and survive. One such ...

This is a dramatic example of convergent evolution, when organisms that aren ... In each case, evolutionary adaptations allow them to exploit a food niche of ants and termites, but the ...

While malaria is the best-understood example of an infectious disease that has driven human evolution ... can help elucidate the evolutionary adaptations that have allowed humans to withstand ...

A good example of the way ... involved in the complicated saga of evolution than the simple picture of mutation and selection that accounts for bacterial adaptation to streptomycin.

Drosophila busckii could therefore be a useful model to study the evolution of resistance to ... elucidating the molecular and physiological adaptations to toxic environments. "Our study is an ...

Carlen and Kreling's new study provides examples of life history ... growth in the field of urban evolution, research work linking specific genes to adaptation in urban regions is still relatively ...

Most people see fruit flies as a nuisance. A scientist at Washington State University Vancouver sees them as the key to understanding evolution.

The adaptations of organisms allow ... Extinction can be for other reasons than evolution. Many are caused by humans. For example hunting, destruction of habitats and global warming.