A bright red band on a butterfly’s wing is a warning: eat me and you’ll regret it. That same red band shows up on dozens of ...

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is delighted to launch Reviews in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, an article collection dedicated to publishing ...

A long-standing assumption about evolution is being challenged by new research showing that vastly different species can rely ...

The new study challenges the long-held view of evolution as a purely random or chaotic process, suggesting instead that ...

Galápagos plants show repeated evolution and emerging species, emphasizing evolution’s flexibility and active role today.

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page. Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, ...

A new platform combines rational protein design with continuous evolution to discover functional molecules more efficiently. In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or ...

Most bacteria replicate quickly. For example, Escherichia coli double their number in just 20 minutes. If the bacteria are infectious human pathogens, such rapid replication can be problematic. But ...

"Why and how did life become so diverse? This has been a central problem in biology. Experimen-tal Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity explores how diversity evolves in microbial popula-tions ...

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual selection is where individuals with certain traits have higher reproductive ...