Science education reform continually occurs through the replacement of current teaching methods with alternatives that are designed to enhance student performance. Newly adopted teaching strategies ...

The evolutionary trajectories of complex traits are constrained by levels of genetic variation as well as genetic correlations among traits. As the ultimate source of all genetic variation is mutation ...

The survival of the human species in the face of high rates of genetic mutations has remained an important problem in evolutionary biology. While mutations provide a source of novelty for the species, ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago have demonstrated that natural selection plays a much larger role in molecular evolution than anyone suspected. Their report, published in the February 28 ...

New results emerging from graph theory prove that the way a population is organized can guarantee the eventual triumph of natural selection — or permanently thwart it. Natural selection has been a ...

At this time of year, firemoths (Schinia masoni) can be seen on blanketflower (Gaillardia aristata), a colorful native wildflower. Evolution is the change of genetic forms in a population. We are ...

"Survival of the fittest" is the catch phrase of evolution by natural selection. While natural selection favors the most fit organisms around, evolutionary biologists have long wondered whether this ...

Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath Modern medicine’s ability to keep us alive makes it tempting to think human evolution may have stopped. Better ...

Joe Pickrell works for and holds equity in the personal genomics company Gencove. Molly Przeworski receives funding from the National Institute of Health. Hakhamanesh Mostafavi does not work for, ...

In a new paper published by Science, Alexey Kondrashov, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, along with the co-authors of the study, have proposed that a ...