(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

An international team of researchers planted the same genetic lines of Arabidopsis thaliana in outdoor gardens stretching ...

New study shows that plants evolve in under five years, but extreme heat still pushes many populations toward extinction.

In an unprecedented series of global field experiments launched ten years ago at the Max Planck Institute for Biology ...

Why do animals behave differently, and what are the consequences of this? A research team from the Collaborative Research ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine copepods—the tiny crustaceans at the heart of the ocean food web—rely on a largely ...

This volume is based on the National Academy of Sciences' Colloquium on the Tempo and Mode of Evolution. The articles appearing in these pages were contributed by speakers at the colloquium and have ...