Centralized migration accelerates adaptation and drives parallel evolution, emphasizing the key influence of spatial organization on evolutionary dynamics across systems from pathogen transmission to ...

Part 1. The historical perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The history of mammals [animals] -- 3. The early radiations -- 4. The Edentata -- 5. The Pholidota -- 6. Conclusions concerning the early ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

Adaptation, evolution, and systematics -- The primate body -- Primate lives -- Prosimians -- New World anthropoids -- Old World monkeys -- Apes and humans -- Primate communities -- Primate adaptations ...