Tapping the engines of cellular electrochemistry and forces of evolution

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a unique resource in the form of the Center for Biomolecular ...

Environmental conditions can influence evolution of gut microbiomes in African herbivores

A study of wild African herbivores offers new insight into how environmental conditions—not just diet and anatomy—can ...
Science Daily

Scientists just cracked the hidden rules of cancer evolution

Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...
New Atlas

Ferns may have the ability to “evolve backward” to a more primitive form

Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early primate ape ancestor, Dryopithecus, and progressing toward modern man, Homo ...
PBS

Ernst Mayr and the Evolutionary Synthesis

Ironically, one great unsolved problem in Darwin's master work, On the Origin of Species, was just that: How and why do species originate? Darwin and his later followers were faced with a seeming ...