Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution is always causing things to change, they ...

Can a snake in Thailand influence the evolution of a snake in the Philippines even if the two species never cross paths?

Religion, politics and war are interconnected in complex ways, especially in cities where human decisions dramatically affect the environment. While religious practices can shape moral frameworks 1, ...

Systems-level thinking has transformed how we study life across scales, from molecules and cells to populations, communities ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

Synthetic biology aims to apply engineering principles and the design process to create biological systems with new and desired functionalities 1. While it is seen by many as a young field that ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin coined the term “living fossils” to describe organisms that show little species diversity or physical differences from their ancestors in the fossil record. In a new study, ...

Kevin Lala (formerly Kevin Laland) is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews, U.K. He previously held positions at Cambridge University, UC Berkeley and ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date ...