A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that some of Earth’s earliest complex organisms evolved a remarkable ...

In the summer of 2012, the brand-new adaptation team met with officials at parks in the New York City area for a theoretical exercise, to “just try and flesh out plausible climate futures,” as ...

Ancient DNA sheds light on adaptation of early Europeans at the dawn of the agricultural revolution. ... assistant professor of integrative biology and statistics and data sciences at UT Austin.

We know what we mean by the term ‘self adaptation,’ and we have no reason to exclude the animal world, or even the vegetable kingdom, from the working of a process familiar to our own experience.

Revise adaptations, interdependence and competition for your biology GCSE foundation and higher triple science exams with Bitesize interactive practice quizzes covering feedback and common errors.

Physicists' study of evolution in bacteria shows that adaptations can be undone, but rarely. Ever since Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in 1859, scientists have wondered whether ...

Exaptation is a term used in evolutionary biology to describe a trait that has been co-opted for a use other than the one for which natural selection has built it. It is a relatively new term ...

In an impressive feat of rapid urban adaptation, sulphur-crested cockatoos have worked out how to use their feet and their large bodies to twist the tap handles of drinking fountains in order to ...

From a new paper published in Ecology Letters, this graphic shows examples of how interactions between temperature and sexual selection drive the co-adaptation of thermal physiology ...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is described as a disorder of interpersonal relationships. People with BPD traits often have unstable and chaotic relationships, where the sufferer can ...