(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

A new study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

A dominant “Hulk” lizard morph is wiping out other color variants, demonstrating how fast evolutionary balance can collapse.

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...