Whether it's more aggressive chickadees, snails with lighter coloring or pigeons with anti-pollution plumage, urban wildlife is trying to adapt to city life. Is it behavioral flexibility or true ...

Humans have moved domestic animals around the globe for thousands of years. These have occasionally established feral populations in nature, often with devastating ecological consequences. To ...

When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the strongest plant produces more seeds, and the most ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...

Sexual selection drives the evolution of diverse traits across animal taxa by favouring characteristics that enhance mating success through mate choice and intra‐ or inter‐sexual competition.