Evolution is hard to model mathematically, but a new study may have found a way to do just that with some inspiration from an unlikely source.

African cuckoo finches (Anomalospiza imberbis) are very deceptive birds, or at least the mothers are. They sneak into the ...

A reader emailed me to ask what I thought would be a good way to better understand some of the more technical posts I put up. First, two course notes which I've found useful as personal references: - ...

Population genetics applies mathematical and statistical approaches to gene‐frequency changes over time and space, uniting genetics, evolutionary biology and anthropology to illuminate human origins, ...

An international team of scientists followed Arabidopsis thaliana, a small annual plant, in outdoor experiments across 30 ...

A new study using the FACE framework found that Slovenia's 2025 curriculum reform introduced substantially more evolutionary ...

Some colorful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Developed by Dr. Simone Blomberg from The University of ...

Today, researchers from leading institutions, including the University of Manitoba, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Polar Bears International, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and San Diego Zoo ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

A just-published article in the journal Nature—“Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia,” (Akbari et al, 15 April 2026)—describes how the development of agriculture in ...