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June 1, 2022 — New research suggests that determining evolutionary trees of organisms by comparing anatomy rather than gene sequences is misleading. The study shows that we often need to overturn centuries of ...
July 2, 2021 — A surprising study on the behavior of unrelated lizards in very different parts of the world has demonstrated how evolution can lead to different species learning the same skills. The study documents ...
Nov. 23, 2022 — The European robin's closest relatives are found in tropical Africa. The European robin is therefore not closely related to the Japanese robin, despite their close similarity in appearance. This ...
Jan. 5, 2023 — What genetic changes are responsible for the evolution of phenotypic traits? This question is not always easy to answer. A newly developed method now makes the search much ...
June 15, 2021 — Plants evolve specialized defense chemicals through the combined effects of genes, geography, demography and environmental ...
July 10, 2023 — Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right ...
Dec. 21, 2021 — Transparent wing patches may do more than allow butterflies and moths to hide -- they may also warn predators to leave them alone, suggests a new ...
Sep. 2, 2022 — Did the first ancestors of whales pick up where the mosasaurs left off 66 million years ago, after the extinction of all the large predatory marine reptiles? A study has looked into the possible ...
Sep. 16, 2021 — A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa's Lake Malawi is helping researchers refine our understanding of how evolution ...
Mar. 2, 2022 — All life evolves: microorganisms can become resistant to drugs, viruses evade our vaccines, and species may adapt to climate change. Even the ability to evolve can evolve. If we were to understand ...
