One mechanism well known to drive evolution is the battle between predators and prey, which often turns into a kind of "arms race." For example, fungi creating antibiotics against bacteria then ...

Each race has a different set of fusions ... As stated by pioneering cell biologist Dan Mazia in 1961, “The role in mitosis of the chromosome arms, which carry most of the genetic material, may be ...

Show 4: "The Evolutionary Arms Race" (one hour) "Survival of the fittest": Is it raw competition, or a level of cooperation indispensable to life? The theory of evolution demonstrates that both ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species--including plants, fungi, and even humans--are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called ...

In the perilous world of cephalopod romance, male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a shocking strategy to survive mating.

Larger species face higher cancer risks but those that reached that size rapidly evolved mitigating mechanisms.

As a novel virus, it had less opportunity to adapt to human physiology — and less time in the evolutionary arms race. The study focused on healthcare workers in four Nigerian hospitals working ...