British trees are evolving resistance to deadly ash dieback, reveals new research. Natural selection in woodlands is acting to combat the fungal disease that has devastated ash trees across Europe, ...

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Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Queen Mary University of London have discovered that a new generation of ash trees, growing naturally in woodland, exhibit greater resistance to the ...

Open almost any textbook dealing with biological evolution and you’ll probably find photographs of peppered moths resting on tree trunks—illustrating the classic story of natural selection in action.

In front page news, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has finally offered convincing proof of evolution. In “500-pound ‘hog log’ to star at Baconfest” (March 22), we have a perfect microcosm of natural ...

Why do humans make so many laws? In a new article, I argue that the human ability to make laws evolved by natural selection. Here are a few snapshots. Laws may seem unlikely to come from evolution.