New research claims that tomato plants in the Galápagos might actually be de-evolving and picking up ancient traits.

The evolutionary ladder is meant to be climbed one rung at a time with an organism shedding some traits and gaining others on ...

Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may be reversing evolution—reawakening ancient traits, surprising scientists at UC Riverside.

Wild-growing tomatoes are on the black-rock islands of the Galápagos are doing something peculiar. They’re shedding millions ...

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Some species have been known to circle back to lost traits, but it's rare and not usually though the same genetic lines.

On the younger, black-rock islands of the Galápagos archipelago, wild-growing tomatoes are doing something peculiar. They're shedding millions of years of evolution, reverting to a more primitive ...

However, reversal is what these tomato plants appear to be doing. “It’s not something we usually expect,” said Adam Jozwiak, a molecular biochemist at UC Riverside and lead author of the study.

Scientists discovered that the fruit is getting more toxic thanks to the return of an ancient defense mechanism.