New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of evolution itself? Researchers have long questioned why biological ...

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The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

Key results for three environments. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2413930121 The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their ...