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Evolution accounts for the conspicuous patterns of similarities and differences among living things over time and across habitats through the action of biological processes such as mutation, natural selection, symbiosis and genetic drift.
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“Accelerated evolution.” An increased mutation rate appears to have occurred in some gene regions of humans—one in neurons playing a key role in the developing cerebral cortex, and another in the FOXP2 gene, involved in human speech.
The idea of evolution by natural selection formulated by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace is a cornerstone of modern biology, yet few biology students or professionals are familiar with the processes of discovery behind the idea.
The resulting population increase brought higher genetic diversity, “the raw material of evolution”.
Genetic engineering opens new possibilities for biomedical enhancement requiring ethical, societal and practical considerations to evaluate its implications for human biology, human evolution and our natural environment. In this Commentary, we consider human enhancement, and in particular, we explore genetic enhancement in an evolutionary context.
Lyudmila Trut devoted her life to studying the process of domestication by selectively breeding friendly foxes. Half a century after its discovery, this iconic fossil remains central to our...
The concentrates on publishing the highest quality papers covering all aspects of human evolution. The central focus is aimed jointly at paleoanthropological work, covering human and primate fossils, and at comparative studies of living species, including both morphological and molecular evidence.
Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms...
Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time. Experiments in budding yeast...