Overzealous open-access advocates are creating an exploitative environment, threatening the credibility of scholarly publishing.
Overzealous open-access advocates are creating an exploitative environment, threatening the credibility of scholarly publishing.
Evolving the ability to run may also have made our ancestors smarter, suggesting that exercise can be healthy for the brain as well as the body.
Two whole genome duplications boosted the complexity of the ancestor of all vertebrates, but also introduced potential for disease.
Genomic analyses reveal that the polar bear evolved between 4 and 5 million years ago, far earlier than previous studies had estimated.
A relatively new pair of sex chromosomes in the fruit fly allows researchers to track their evolution from the beginning.
Starting in April 2013, research supported by the United Kingdom government must be made freely available within 6 months of publication.
Researchers breed fruit flies that, after 40 generations of conditioning, have acquired the ability to react to numbers.
Guppies with experimentally shrunken brains produced more offspring than guppies bred for larger noggins, confirming a long suspected tradeoff of bigger brains.
A new study finds that an Alaskan population of the fish has quickly evolved in response to warming temperatures.
The rate of evolution is affected for millenia after mass extinctions.