How does one species become many?

Published: 8 January 2024

Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species – that is, an “adaptive radiation” – is the result of each species adapting...

Uncovering the underlying patterns in contemporary evolution

Published: 18 January 2022

Wild populations must continuously adapt to environmental changes or risk extinction. For more than fifty years, scientists have described instances of “rapid evolution” in specific populations as...

Quantifying evolutionary impacts of humans on the biosphere is harder than it seems

Published: 12 October 2018

Are human disturbances to the environment driving evolutionary changes in animals and plants? A new study conducted by McGill researchers finds that, on average, human disturbances don’t appear to...

NATURE | How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology

Published: 31 January 2018

Even for the most common processes, such as changes in population size or food chains, ecologists must take evolution into consideration, researchers say. “Everybody realized rapid evolution was...

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