Daphnia pulex (a.k.a. the water flea) is a microscopic crustacean whose unique reproduction habits make it the perfect species for studying evolution and natural selection. A new study looks at how ...
We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards – never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures. Years ago, one of us was in the Bahamas chasing a typically uncooperative ...
Introduction. Definition of natural selection ; Relationship to genetic drift and evolution ; Restricted meanings of "natural selection" ; Modes of selection ; Summary -- Philosophical comments.
The Darwinian would say, "Gene dissemination: Successful competition in the hunt allows the fox to survive and breed, maximizing its individual representation of genes in the population. That's how ...
Natural selection has even been applied to the most fundamental domain there is – the cosmological domain. Theories of cosmological natural selection [3,4] assume that universes can reproduce like ...