The idea of fast-track evolution during speciation has been controversial. Critics of the theory of punctuated equilibrium found it difficult to believe that the evolutionary processes leading to new ...

A common mantra of the life sciences industry can be captured in a one word—innovate. To survive in today's hostile world, a company must out-think and out-innovate the competition. And out of that ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...

The concept of punctuated equilibrium was, to some, a radical new idea when it was first proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for one ...

History is often shaped by moments of profound change—inflection points that redefine what’s possible, much like cosmic asteroids that strike the planet and alter the course of evolution. Today, we ...

One of the most enduring tropes about crocodiles is to describe them as “living fossils”. They are cold, slow moving and scaly, so they look like how one might picture a dinosaur. Like many clichés, ...