This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Human impacts on global ecosystems can be severe, widespread and irreversible. But life on Earth has evolved to meet environmental challenges ...

In the aquatic environment, suction feeding is far more common than biting as a way to capture prey. A new study shows that the evolution of biting behavior in eels led to a remarkable diversification ...

New method accelerates protein engineering by using structural and evolutionary constraints in inverse folding models without training specialized AI systems. (Nanowerk News) A team of Chinese ...

Robert I Colautti receives funding from Queen's University, the Government of Ontario, and three federal granting agencies: NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR. Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a ...

Evolution, Vol. 73, No. 10 (OCTOBER 2019), pp. 2072-2084 (13 pages) Understanding the origins of biodiversity demands consideration of both extrinsic (e.g., ecological opportunity) and intrinsic (e.g.

A team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a groundbreaking method that ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can’t go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that ...

A team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a groundbreaking method that ...