A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The ...

"Natural" refers to how traits are passed on without intentional outside interference. (In contrast, "artificial selection" is used for what we typically call breeding or cultivation, such as with ...

"But natural selection can also cause similarities." Conner is also a faculty member in the Department of Plant Biology and MSU's Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, or EEB, program.

There are three ingredients necessary for natural selection to occur: variation, inheritance and competition. The first complex life (animals, plants and fungi) appeared around 540 million years ...

"Natural" refers to how traits are passed on without intentional outside interference. (In contrast, "artificial selection" is used for what we typically call breeding or cultivation, such as with ...