Molecular evolutionary biologist Masatoshi Nei says Darwin never proved natural selection is the driving force of evolution — because it isn't. In a cavernous concert hall, before an eager audience of ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising vulnerability.

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While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

From natural selection to the history of nature -- From the units of inheritance to the origin of species -- Multicellularity and the developmental code -- Life cycle evolution : life and death of the ...

Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual selection and this can lead to better females, new research shows. The study - led by the University of Exeter and Okayama University ...

Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal ...