When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the beastly forces of natural selection lost their ability to shape our species, ...

New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its ...

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It would be tempting to believe that human evolution has slowed since our ancestors left Africa 300,000 years ago. Yet a new ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes. By Carl ...

Introduction. Definition of natural selection ; Relationship to genetic drift and evolution ; Restricted meanings of "natural selection" ; Modes of selection ; Summary -- Philosophical comments.

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...