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 ...
Convergent evolution—where distinct species independently evolve similar traits or functions, such as the wings of birds and ...
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 ...
If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...
A Chinese research team has uncovered a key mechanism explaining why different organisms independently evolve similar functions when adapting to similar environments, using an artificial intelligence ...
Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of other body parts is a little bit more of a mystery. The human body is a ...
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