An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the ...

Transitional fossils help scientists bridge gaps in the tree of life, resulting in a picture of gradual evolution over millions of years.

"Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment,"was published in Nature as the journal's cover story in March. "We set out to explore how organisms make the transition to ...

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) some 2.4 billion years ago established the oxygen-rich atmosphere that many living things ...

The globe-trotting biologists are discovering an intriguing pattern: In many places, species appear to have emerged at the transition zones between different ecosystems, without ever being ...

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