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Wildfires drive evolutionary change, but can California ecosystems keep up?

Posted August 27, 2024

Familiar sparks for ancient extinctions

Posted September 5, 2023

A country weed with city problems

Posted June 1, 2022

A decade of change, a decade of Evo in the News

Posted September 3, 2021

Evolution explains mosquitoes’ taste for human blood

Posted September 1, 2020

‘Puppy-dog eyes’ produced by evolution

Posted September 1, 2019

Global change drove the evolution of giants

Posted September 1, 2017

The mutations that make us human

Posted September 1, 2016

Mammals’ nocturnal past shapes sun sensitivity

Posted September 1, 2015

Evolution accounts for taste

Posted September 1, 2014

A new old animal

Posted September 1, 2013

What comes after mass extinctions?

Posted September 1, 2012

The evidence lines up in early mammal evolution

Posted September 1, 2011

Bed bugs bite back thanks to evolution

Posted September 2, 2010

Las chinches de cama pican de nuevo gracias a la evolución

Posted September 1, 2010

La herencia inoportuna de una especie: riesgo de extinción

Posted September 1, 2009

A species’ unwelcome inheritance: extinction risk

Posted September 1, 2009

Evolution down under

Posted September 1, 2008

When it comes to evolution, headlines often get it wrong

Posted September 1, 2007

Musseling in on evolution

Posted September 1, 2006

Livestock kick a drug habit

Posted September 1, 2005

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