MIT's ocean model precisely mimics microbes' life cycles
Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed" have grown in population patterns that precisely mimic their real-world counterparts.

Dinosaur extinction didn't cause the rise of present-day mammals, claim researchers
A new, complete 'tree of life' tracing the history of all 4,500 mammals on Earth shows that they did not diversify as a result of the death of the dinosaurs

Robust time estimation reconciles views of the antiquity of placental mammals
Despite great progress over the past decade, the evolutionary history of placental mammals remains controversial.

Sea snails break the law
Dollo's Law states that complicated structures can't be re-evolved because the genes that code for them were lost or have mutated.

Neutral evolution has helped shape our genome
Researchers have added to the growing mound of evidence that many of the genetic bits and pieces that drive evolutionary changes do not confer any advantages or disadvantages to humans or other animals.

How E. coli evolves to adapt to changing acidity
One in a series of studies on laboratory studies of selection and evolution

Origins of nervous system found in genes of sea sponge
Scientists have discovered significant clues to the evolutionary origins of the nervous system by studying the genome of a sea sponge

Columbine flowers develop long nectar spurs in response to pollinators
Research offers evidence that evolution may occur in a stop-and-go pattern

Which came first: Primates' ability to see colorful food or see colorful sex?
The adaptive significance of the unique ability in many primates to distinguish red hues from green ones (i.e., trichromatic color vision) has always enticed debate among evolutionary biologists.

How plants learned to respond to changing environments
A team of scientists have discovered how plants evolved the ability to adapt to changes in climate and environment.

Inter-Element Recombination Between Retrotransposons May Be Strategy For Evolution Of Viruses Like HIV
Researchers have uncovered intriguing new lues about the evolution of retrotransposons in a genome

UCLA Study Finds Ocean Currents Slow Adaptation Of Tree-dwelling Lizards
Evolution of genetically distinct species that live exclusively on land can be slowed by over-water dispersal following tropical storms

Evolutionary Pathway To Separate-Sex Plants
When it comes to sex, most plants have the best of both worlds: their sex organs (flowers) are both male and female at the same time.

Selection for the miniaturization of highly expressed genes
What controls the sizes of genes and their introns? Some people believe that genes with complex expression pattern have coding for longer proteins, and contain more undiscovered regulatory motif in their introns (thus they should have longer introns). And

Lessons from the past: Evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions
Mass extinctions have played many evolutionary roles, involving differential survivorship or selectivity of taxa and traits...

The role of extinction in evolution
The extinction of species is not normally consideed an important element of neodarwinian theory, in contrast to the opposite phenomenon, specation...

Disrupting evolutionary processes: The effect of habitat fragmentation on collared lizards in the Missouri Ozarks
Humans affect biodiversity at the genetic, species, community, and ecosystem levels.

The evolutionary impact of invasive species
The authors explored the nature of these recent biotic exchanges and their consequences on evolutionary processes.

Roots: evolutionary origins and biogeochemical significance
This review considers root evolution by attempting to define the root and, in so doing, delimiting its difference from the shoot, and by considering the functions of the roots of extant plants and cases in which ‘root’ functions are performed by non-r

The biotic crisis and the future of evolution
The biotic crisis overtaking our planet is likely to precipitate a major extinction of species.