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A yellow band across a wing might look like a simple flourish. In the South American rainforest, it can mean survival. Across butterflies and a day-flying moth that split from one another tens of ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

Ibarra, professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at University of California, Davis, as a member. His election ...

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...

A new study reveals how a remarkable group of plants on the Galápagos Islands developed their diverse leaf shapes—offering ...

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Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial ...