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Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

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Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

Their findings have been published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. The researchers analysed ... how strongly humans can influence the evolution of animals. "Charles Darwin assumed ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and ...

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It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory or controlled field manipulations to investigate evolutionary processes. It usually makes use of organisms with rapid generation times and small ...