A major transition in evolution is the shift from asexual to sexual reproduction in early organisms. But why would a yeast ...

Scotland's island wrens are quietly breaking the rules of evolution, growing in ways that have stunned researchers and raised ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Alaska are changing how scientists view mammal life and migration in the ancient Arctic.

Parallel evolution is the independent evolution of similar traits, starting from a similar ancestral condition. Frequently this is the situation in more closely related lineages, where several species ...

British mathematician Jack Good coined the term “intelligence explosion” 61 years ago to describe what would happen when an intelligent machine entered a runaway cycle of fully automated ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human populations in Oceania, filling a major gap in representation in genomics ...

Tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Scientists studying four isolated populations of British Wrens discovered that some island birds have grown ...

Ecological communities are complex and dynamic systems and their composition—as well as changes in that—are difficult to predict. This is a major challenge especially with microbes, key players for ...

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Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was a British naturalist whose work transformed biology by providing a unifying explanation for the diversity of life. Through observations made during his voyage on the HMS ...

Abstract: Optimal design is an inevitable step for parallel manipulators. The formulated optimal design problems are generally constrained, nonlinear, multimodal, and even without closed-form ...

[Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the adoption and impact of AI and agents. See coverage of our related event.] Using an ...