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(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

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Scotland's island wrens are quietly breaking the rules of evolution, growing in ways that have stunned researchers and raised a provocative question: are these birds becoming something else entirely?

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar ...

Scientists tracking blind Mexican cavefish uncover a striking evolutionary reversal where existing brain circuits are rewired via dopamine to flip behavioral responses to light.

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From mosquitoes to bed bugs, parasites have always stuck close to humanity, and they continue to shape our lives to this day, ...

Tiny British wrens on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a remarkable evolutionary transformation. Scientists have ...

The whales occasionally switched back to an older call pattern, suggesting they retained knowledge of both dialects.