Wild chimpanzees show reduced participation and performance in their tool-use behaviours as they experience old age, ...

Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ear holes and their behinds, a new study shows.

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

Nature is marked not only by struggles for survival, but also by remarkable feats of cooperation. From microbes to insects to humans, organisms work together in a variety of ways to gather and share ...

The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently ...

Gene editing technologies—such as those used in agriculture and de-extinction projects—can be repurposed to offer what an ...

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time. Pseudo-overdominance describes ...

Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...

Abstract Proteins mediate the critical processes of life and beautifully solve the challenges faced during the evolution of modern organisms. Our goal is to design a new generation of proteins that ...

Explore how rewilding architecture transforms landscapes into thriving ecosystems through innovative, sustainable design ...

Molecular evolution articles from across Nature Portfolio Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence.

This paper undertakes an important investigation to determine whether movement slowing in microgravity is due to a strategic conservative approach or rather due to an underestimation of the mass of ...