We share the planet with a huge diversity of plants and creatures. But we can see similarities between organisms that live continents apart or are very different in other aspects. One reason for this ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page. Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, ...

THE THEORY of evolution through natural selection, discovered independently by Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), is the central organising theory in biology. While ...

Imagine finding life beyond Earth—would it be familiar or completely alien? This video explores the science of convergent evolution, offering insights into how life might evolve across the cosmos.

A recent series of studies suggests that the brains of birds, reptiles and mammals all evolved independently — even though they share a common ancestor. This process, where different species ...