Researchers report using computer simulations to demonstrate an important aspect of evolutionary theory: that complex structures, like the eyeball, can arise through evolution. So-called digital ...

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Chinese paleontologists have made breakthroughs in the study of the evolution of the mammalian jaw joint by re-examining two museum-hold fossils. Their work has helped establish the first evolutionary ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team showed that a group of highly divergent mammals known as Afrotheria and distantly ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Using a revolutionary computer program that gives scientists the opportunity to watch evolution take place before their eyes using "digital organisms," a team of researchers from ...

Unlike businesses or governments, organisms can't go into evolutionary debt -- there is no borrowing one's way back from extinction. This can lead to seemingly irrational economic choices that ...