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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study looks at how natural selection works more subtly than previously believed while an organism is in a stable environment ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

The Darwinian would say, "Gene dissemination: Successful competition in the hunt allows the fox to survive and breed, maximizing its individual representation of genes in the population. That's how ...