Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln biologists, in a three-year experiment using live blue jays and evolving virtual moths, have made the first direct observations to support a long-standing idea: that ...

Evolution, normally viewed as a slow, steady process, can occur in rapid fits and starts with one species splitting into several lineages in a relatively short period of time. Now scientists have ...

When the populations of two species oscillate together (for example, predators and prey), it’s a good bet that they are tightly coupled ecologically. A famous example is the Canadian lynx and snowshoe ...

The giant killer claws of dinosaurs such as Velociraptor might have been employed much as birds of prey use similar talons — as hooks to keep victims from escaping, researchers say. The discovery ...

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Evolution, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 765-768 (4 pages) ...