Microbes profoundly impact evolution, shaping traits alongside genes. Holobiont biology highlights how hosts and microbes ...

I’m Dr Alex Lathbridge and this is Bitesize Biology. This is the first episode in a series on Inheritance, Variation and Evolution. Or in other words, how you get things from your biological ...

The combination of the history of the investigation of plant variation and evolution and up-to-date results and interpretation is extremely valuable. It has my highest recommendation.' Mark Dale, ...

A 30-year-long study of a small population of marine snail shows how evolution can adapt to environmental changes quite rapidly. This study revealed how a specific ecotype of the snail changed its ...

But there is another, more compelling reason for why life history evolution is important: adaptation by natural selection is based on variation in Darwinian fitness among individuals, and since ...

Copy number variations (CNVs) have been linked to dozens of human diseases, but can they also represent the genetic variation that was so essential to our evolution? More recently, both aneuploidy ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate ... Moreover, he showed that natural populations included enough heritable variation for natural selection to work.

Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution. Recognize that characteristics are passed from parents to their ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...