The concept of punctuated equilibrium was, to some, a radical new idea when it was first proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for one ...

History is often shaped by moments of profound change—inflection points that redefine what’s possible, much like cosmic asteroids that strike the planet and alter the course of evolution. Today, we ...

What do Darwin’s finches and active managers have in common? Evolutionary biology. Although birds from the Galápagos aren’t quite what you’d find on modern-day Wall Street, the parallels between their ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...

If you compare a modern cotton crop with one grown 1,600 years ago, the DNA of the two look almost nothing alike. It’s the first known example in domesticated crops of a supercharged evolutionary ...

Complex evolutionary dynamics embodies the study of systems in which a multitude of interacting components undergo non‐linear and non‐equilibrium changes over time. This research area spans ...