Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

From natural selection to the history of nature -- From the units of inheritance to the origin of species -- Multicellularity and the developmental code -- Life cycle evolution : life and death of the ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

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Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising vulnerability.

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

Have you ever come across a statement like this: “I can’t believe that something as beautiful and complex as the human eye could be the result of a random process like evolution”? Or this: “It seems ...

Television nature programs and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of ...