A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

Contributed by Francisco Mauro Salzano, January 2, 2017 (sent for review July 5, 2016; reviewed by Theodore G. Schurr and Anne C. Stone) ...

Phenotypic convergence is correlated often with transitions to similar environments, which provides compelling evidence that convergence resulted from response to similar patterns of natural selection ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Brunner: "In 1859, Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. It was mainly about survival, about genes that make you strong and healthy, about natural selection.

Abstract: In the article we present a practical study on methods for numerical feature selection. We compare quality of classification models built on different sets of features. In particular, we ...