Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species 鈥 that is, an 鈥渁daptive radiation鈥 鈥 is the result of each species adapting...
Wild populations must continuously adapt to environmental changes or risk extinction. For more than fifty years, scientists have described instances of 鈥渞apid evolution鈥 in specific populations as...
Are human disturbances to the environment driving evolutionary changes in animals and plants? A new study conducted by 黑料不打烊 researchers finds that, on average, human disturbances don鈥檛 appear to...
Even for the most common processes, such as changes in population size or food chains, ecologists must take evolution into consideration, researchers say. 鈥淓verybody realized rapid evolution was...