The adaptations of organisms allow them to thrive in different habitats, including extreme environments. Evolution explains how better adapted organisms have an advantage and are more likely to ...

Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

"Our results show that major initial adaptations are predictable, and as evolution progresses, this ability is lost," he ...

The study sheds light on the evolutionary adaptations that allow snow leopards to thrive in one of the world's most ...

A team at the University of Calgary is making scientific advances in understanding plant adaptation, which could ultimately ...

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable ...

Now the next step: evolution. The Grants found that the offspring of the birds that survived the 1977 drought tended to be larger, with bigger beaks. So the adaptation to a changed environment led ...

The adaptations of organisms allow them to thrive in different habitats, including extreme environments. Evolution explains how better adapted organisms have an advantage and are more likely to ...