What is rapid evolution and what can cause it?

Environmental change can drive hard-wired evolutionary changes in animal species in a matter of generations. A new study overturns the common assumption that evolution only occurs gradually over hundreds or thousands of years. read more

Change in environment can lead to rapid evolution, researchers say September 2, 2015, Florida State University Kimberly Hughes is a professor of Biological Science at Florida State University. read more

Many of the extraordinary adaptations happening around us may be because of us. As human activity disrupts climate patterns and modifies habitats, rapid evolution appears to be an increasingly common strategy for survival. read more