“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...

Regular men are naturally more muscular and taller than women. But this is not a contemporary incident, it developed with a ...

Evolution is defined as the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations. When living organisms reproduce, they pass on to their progeny a collection ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

The team's findings suggest that polyploidy can be both, a barrier and a driver of evolutionary change, depending on how innovative evolution is required to adapt to the environment. Hatakeyama's ...

Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for one kind of evolutionary change. The relative importance of punctuated and gradual patterns of evolution is a subject of debate and research.

Residents should tell the Iowa Department of Education to stop its effort to inject private beliefs into science standards, writes Bruce Lear.

way that species change, split or disappear," said The Atlantic. Instead, the theory placed luck as one of the most significant factors in evolution. "What we're finding is that even if you have ...

Some Iowans are raising concern about new proposed state science standards. In the proposal, any mention of "climate change" was changed to the phrase "climate trends". Although the standards would ...