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 ...

As climate change accelerates, plants face mounting pressure to adapt to shifting ecosystems and environmental conditions.

Evolutionary history is filled with "arms race" relationships between organisms locked in struggles of adaptation and escalation. This is an example of coevolution. Usually, we think of a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

A new study reveals that Tibetan communities have developed unique adaptations to survive in the low-oxygen conditions of the ...

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 ...

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 ...