How do living bacteria survive on the surface of dust particles carried by desert storms from the Sahara and Egypt to Israel?

Sexual selection can sometimes explain phenomena that natural selection alone cannot. But could bacteria exhibit sexual selection? Researchers argue that some bacteria might.

New research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which ...

5 fun facts about evolution The last common ancestor of all life on Earth is estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago. There are three ingredients necessary for natural selection to ...

Researchers have produced some of the first evidence that shows that artificial selection and natural selection act on the same genes, a hypothesis predicted by Charles Darwin in 1859.

With COVID-19 variants in the news, we see and, an increasing number of us experience, evolution through natural selection right in front of our face masks. Natural selection depends on genetic ...

When the Black Death struck Europe in 1348, the bacterial infection killed large swaths of people across the continent, driving the strongest pulse of natural selection yet measured in humans, the ...

Sexual selection can sometimes explain phenomena that natural selection alone cannot. But could bacteria exhibit sexual selection?