For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Darwin's other mistake / Michael R. Rose and Theodore Garland Jr. -- The importance of experimental studies in evolutionary biology / Douglas J. Futuyma and Albert F. Bennett -- Modeling experimental ...

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

Scientists warn that assisted evolution may be too slow to save coral reefs as ocean heat waves intensify and climate change ...

In an unprecedented field experiment, an international research team led by Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

Scientists uncovered how whole-genome duplication emerges and remains stable over thousands of generations of evolution in the lab. Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on ...

In a one-of-a-kind experiment led by UC Berkeley researchers, biologists in Europe, the Middle East and U.S. planted 360 small plots of Arabidopsis (above) in various types of climates — from alpine ...