Chinese researchers recently discovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism, a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

Chinese researchers recently uncovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism—a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

"We show in this paper that even these abrupt changes are easily explained as cases of what is known as 'directional selection' -- when natural selection strongly pulls a trait in one direction.

Stroud expected to observe stabilizing selection at work preserving moderate traits. Instead he saw clearer evidence of directional selection: some lizards with unique traits, such as stickier ...

Known in evolutionary biology as “directional selection,” this process is like the sharpening of a knife—while the weapon gets more deadly, it loses a bit of itself in the process. The new study ...