Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

Imagine if the genetic deck had been shuffled slightly differently as some of the earliest life forms began their evolutionary paths. Might a creature just as smart as us -- or even smarter ...

As a result, biologists have begun to consider how organismal-level traits such as life history could influence variation in molecular evolution across the tree of life. This is a central pursuit ...

providing fuel for movement and the evolution of more complex body structures. Others propose that an extinction of life just before the Cambrian opened up ecological roles, or "adaptive space ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better fit the places they live. It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles ...