Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process When ...

Leading theories suggest that the first energy used by life was either from the sun or from geothermal heat and chemistry at the bottom of the ocean. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Among the many misconceptions about evolution—“it’s only a theory”; “it works for the good of the species”—one is that evolution generates biological perfection. If only! In “The Evolution of ...

Hal Drakesmith receives funding from Medical Research Council UK and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Jon Wade does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Evolution, Vol. 71, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2017), pp. 215-226 (12 pages) Many organisms spend a significant portion of their life cycle as haploids and as diploids (a haploid–diploid life cycle). However, ...

Life-history traits represent organisms’ strategies to navigate the fitness trade-offs between survival and reproduction. Eric Charnov developed three dimensionless metrics to quantify fundamental ...