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In a vivid example of nature adapting to human pressure, invasive smallmouth bass in New York’s Adirondack Mountains have evolved traits that help them resist long-standing removal campaigns.

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

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Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may be reversing evolution—reawakening ancient traits, surprising scientists at UC Riverside.

The findings of a new study "clearly show that interfering with the environment has a detectable effect on wildlife," a ...

The covariance matrix self-adaptation evolution strategy with repelling subpopulations (RS-CMSA-ES) is one of the most successful multimodal optimization (MMO) methods currently available. However, ...