Science news articles about 'evolutionary diversification'

... The most likely alternative," Daniel Sol states, "is that big brains enhance the rate of evolutionary diversification by facilitating changes in behavior, which would place new selection pressures on ...

... on the features of the species itself? Now a study supports this possibility, suggesting that possessing a large brain might have facilitated the evolutionary diversification of some avian lineages.

... the world's flowering plants. The forests that resulted provided the habitat that supported later evolutionary diversifications for amphibians, ants, placental mammals and ferns. "Shortly after the ...

... less than cat-like ancestors. So do snails, and crabs, and so on. But what if the broad evolutionary diversification of one of these groups were repeated by a few species in a single genus tens of ...

... New England Complex Systems Institute on the role of complexity in species coexistence and evolutionary diversification. "One can think about the creation of species on the genetic level in the same ...