Sriram Bird Photographer (left) and Ondrej Prosicky (right)/ Shutterstock What is the difference between convergent and divergent evolution? Divergent evolution is the opposite of convergent evolution ...

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex ...

New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of ...

Creative Culture as an Evolutionary Process When I was a graduate student studying "artificial life," I developed what she thought was the first computational model of biological evolution through ...

The union of developmental biology, concerned with the origins of phenotypes, and evolution, the study of population dynamics ... In other words, it inherently pursues both convergent and divergent ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

Science Fiction often shows us aliens who look much like humans, and suggest this is a result of convergent evolution to useful traits. But is such convergence to the human form or mind likely with ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can ...