Here’s a prediction based on high school-level evolutionary biology: Before our Brood X cicadas sing again, a new coronavirus will threaten another global pandemic. Natural selection, a major force of ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 has accomplished something that school boards and other policy makers often refuse to do. It has given us a vivid, real-time lesson in how biological evolution works, ...

Exactly how life arose out of non-living matter is a major mystery, and a new study has found that natural selection may have played a role before life itself even existed on Earth. By recreating the ...

New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

Though Charles Darwin is most famous for his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle and his theory of natural selection, the naturalist was, at heart, a botanist. Photo illustration by Smithsonian.com / Photos ...