A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

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Learn how jellyfish and sea anemones are changing what we know about the evolutionary purpose of sleep.

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

An evolutionary architecture strategy ensures rapid responses to unforeseen events. Autonomously acting teams make informed ...

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A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

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Flash forward 10 years and Sivakumar had become an integrative biology major paid to conduct groundbreaking research into how ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...