Some species have been known to circle back to lost traits, but it's rare and not usually though the same genetic lines.

Evolution articles from across Nature Portfolio. Atom; RSS Feed; Definition. Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations.

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

On the younger, black-rock islands of the Galápagos archipelago, wild-growing tomatoes are doing something peculiar. They're ...

Around 220 million years ago, shifting climate conditions created an environment that allowed pterosaurs to evolve and take ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited traits of populations through successive generations. To fully understand the science of ecology, one must first be able to grasp evolutionary concepts.

Parasitic fungi, sustainable beekeeping and a dinosaur egg. Here are the striking images from this year’s BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition.

In this op-ed, Willow Defebaugh reflects on nature, evolution, and her new book The Overview: Meditations on Nature for a World in Transition.

Wall brown butterflies adapt quickly through evolution as the climate warms and they shift northward. They grow faster and ...

Now 164 years later, nine scientists and philosophers on Monday proposed a new law of nature that includes the biological evolution described by Darwin as a vibrant example of a much broader ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world ...