During California’s worst dry spell in the past 1,200 years, some populations of wildflowers defied the odds to survive the ordeal. Researchers say they now believe these flowers relied on a type of ...

Team Advances Knowledge Through a Series of Investigative Studies on the REST Protein GEN continues its celebration of the “Year of Darwin” by looking at new research that provides important and novel ...

The influenza (flu) virus is constantly undergoing a process of evolution and adaptation through acquiring new mutations. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have added a new layer of ...

Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.” James Stroud ...

Evolutionary process / Julian Huxley -- Evolution of Metazoa / G.R. De Beer -- Evolution of tropical forest / E.J.H. Corner -- Allesthetic selection and its evolutionary aspects / Hugh B. Cott -- ...