Often likened to mermaids in media reports and popular culture, South Korea’s famed Haenyeo (“sea women”) spend much of the ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

This valuable study investigates how stochastic and deterministic factors are integrated during cellular decision-making, particularly in situations where cells differentiate into distinct fates ...

The secret to tackling one of the United States’ most deadly chronic diseases may reside thousands of miles away in the chilly waters separating the Korean Peninsula and Japan, where generations of ...

Population genomics plays an important role in revealing population structure, genomic variation, natural selection and gene flow in a variety of different organisms. 3 For instance, population ...

The ability of organisms to generate adaptive genetic variation is crucial for evolutionary success, particularly in changing environments. The MPI-EB study investigates whether natural selection ...

Three key ingredients in natural selection are variation, inheritance and competition. Next there is inheritance. Many of these variable traits are inherited. Genes are passed on from one ...

Jason Drees, Arizona State University This may allow Daphnia pulex to more easily adapt to a change in their environment, as they have a greater degree of genetic variation Natural selection is ...

The early evolution of the genus Homo, which is estimated to have emerged 2.8 million years ago, is characterized by variation in fossils. In the past, this has been attributed to natural selection.

This study exemplifies a current approach in research that connects genetic targets of natural selection with complex disease genes - understanding, for example, how natural genetic variation ...

He then related survival data to the variation in body traits, which allowed him to analyze which body traits were important predictors of survival. Taken together, the analysis painted a picture of ...

Natural selection is usually understood in the context ... there is a constraint caused by a lack of genetic variation." Not only did the trait respond, it did so very quickly.