For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

A study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

New study shows that plants evolve in under five years, but extreme heat still pushes many populations toward extinction.

Someone once asked me “Is evolution still happening?” My brief answer was “Of course, it’s always happening.” I would have gone on to explain a bit, but the questioner turned and walked away. That ...

In an unprecedented field experiment, an international research team led by Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of ...

The scarlet monkeyflower's ability to keep pace with a punishing drought signals some plants can adapt quickly to climate ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

We are delighted to present the second edition of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution's 'Women in Population, Community and Ecosystem Dynamics” article ...

Example of a spatial configuration of a 2D expanding and evolving colony of cells, a typical simulation representing an example with 3 mutations. The individual graphs represent different snapshots in ...

What would you contribute to the world of ecology and evolution if you could access the combined wisdom of faculty from more than a dozen disciplines that span the earth, biological and computational ...