Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but a new software package developed by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station offers researchers a better way to simulate how organisms change over ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

Evolution isn’t the pursuit of some ultimate superpower; it tends towards the optimal. A cheetah lives in balance with the prey population in its environment. Any development that increased speed ...

Microbes form the base of food webs and drive biogeochemical cycling. Predicting the effects of microbial evolution on global elemental cycles remains a significant challenge due to the sheer number ...

A new perspective published in Biological Diversity links plant functional traits to ecological resilience, offering a more ...

Yes, the evolution of any adapted trait in nature must reach a limit. In principle, this limit is defined by the laws of physics, but, in practice, it may also be defined by the constraints of biology ...