The mating rituals of many bird species involve elaborate dances and displays by the males. The evolutionary reasons for the ...

This phenomenon, called multilevel selection, is an extension of natural selection: the process by which organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and ...

Laboratory experiments have shown that prebiotic chemistry requires very high phosphorus concentrations, about 10,000 times ...

Large soda lakes may have provided the high phosphorus levels needed for life to begin on Earth, offering a new explanation ...

A physicist believes he may have uncovered a hidden code behind the universe. His theory challenges what we think we know ...

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist ...

Since Darwin's time, the phenomenon known as flower constancy -- i.e., where insects consistently visit the same flower type even when many others are also present -- has been understood as a passive ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

Darwin speculated that flower constancy was ... However, researchers at University of Tsukuba have revealed that this theory is incomplete, since it focuses too heavily on "memory constraints." ...

Darwin has become the country's equal second-most-expensive capital city to rent a house, along with Canberra. Darwin's rental vacancy rate for both houses and units is at 0.6 per cent, which is ...

In August 1969 Charles Manson’s followers killed seven ... the gruesome killings and challenges one of the most famous theories about the case known as “Helter Skelter.” ...