A new global report, the Nexus Assessment Report, is a comprehensive assessment of the interplay between biodiversity, water, ...

In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage ... less sunlight and colder temperature, new environmental forces that exerted selective ...

The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance showed that humans can and do adapt ... understood example of an infectious disease that has driven human evolution, numerous ...

Conservation groups can now share and compare climate adaptation tactics to support threatened species and ecosystems through a new online tool called AdaptLog.

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help ... threats across their range, including environmental changes to the climate and displacement due to human pressures, it is important that their ...