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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

NASA had a big – and little – problem. For a small satellite, the agency needed a tiny antenna, with very specific ...

A new research study has revealed that natural selection is driving a surge in redheads. A team of researchers from Harvard University assessed ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than ...

Scientist believe ‘red hair genes’ may have grown more common because it was ‘beneficial 4,000 years ago’ Cameron Henderson is a versatile journalist currently serving as Science Correspondent for The ...

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 ...