Science news articles about 'evolution by natural selection'

  • Natural selection may not produce the best organisms

    ... fittest" is the catch phrase of evolution by natural selection. While natural selection favors the most fit ... Genetic mutations create the raw material that natural selection acts upon. The short-term ...
  • What the social lives of brewer’s yeast say about evolution

    ... singlehandedly promotes cooperation and protects against cheaters. Cooperation has been a challenge for evolution by natural selection because individuals are predicted to act in a way that maximizes ...
  • Evolution: Charles Darwin was wrong about the tree of life

    ... tree in 1837, an idea that quickly came to symbolise the theory of evolution by natural selection.But the advent of modern genetics has revealed that representing evolutionary history as a tree is ...
  • Philip Ball on the evolution of Darwin

    ... 1991 biography seemed to leave nothing more to be said, offer a new vision of the architect of evolution by natural selection. In Darwin's Sacred Cause (Allen Lane £25), they say that Darwin's work on ...
  • Evolution education for K-12 teachers needs beefing up, says CU-Boulder professor

    ... includes obtaining short essays from thousands of students regarding their understanding of evolution and natural selection, genes and traits, including the notion of dominant and recessive genes, he ...
  • Scientists propose the creation of a new type of seed bank

    ... climatic events like hurricanes, but also through sustained and ongoing processes like evolution by natural selection. While most scientists agree that the climate is changing, the extent to which ...
  • The life and times of Charles Darwin

    An interactive guide to the social and historic context of Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection
  • In Physics, What We Don't Find Can Be Important Too

    ... do  is based on the success of the indirect approach in science.   Darwin's evolution by natural selection, for example, gained early acceptance because without it nothing much in biology made sense ...
  • 'Dirty' to be scrubbed from the dictionary

    ... a team led by Mark Pagel, a biologist at Reading University, who applied the theory of evolution through natural selection to the family of Indo-European languages, which can be traced back at least 9 ...
  • Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?

    ... analysis. Heredity and variation played central roles in Darwin's development of the theory of evolution by natural selection. His view that variation is caused by random, quasi-physical events ...
  • Moving gene therapy forward with mobile DNA

    ... of the limitations associated with viral vectors. Lessons from evolution Using the principles of evolution and natural selection, that were initially conceived by Charles Darwin, they have now ...
  • The origin of Origin

    ... to say. Nonetheless, Iain McCalman, an Australian cultural historian, has made a brave try. Darwinian evolution by natural selection rests on three indisputable axioms: like breeds ...
  • Funny, you don't look related

    ... got on the islands, and it figured heavily in the formation of his ideas on evolution by natural selection. Now, UCLA biologists and colleagues have analyzed DNA from museum specimens, including ...
  • Darwin's mockingbirds DNA research may help species recovery

    ... of a rare bird in the Galapagos Islands that was an inspiration for Darwin`s theory of evolution by natural selection, scientists report in a paper published in the Royal Society Journal Biology ...

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