In times of environmental upheaval, how do communities of organisms respond? When entire species are wiped out, do surviving species move in and take over, or do new species immigrate to fill the gaps ...

Scientists created a framework to test the predictions of biological optimality theories, including evolution. Evolution adapts and optimizes organisms to their ecological niche. This could be used to ...

Evolution adapts and optimizes organisms to their ecological niche. This could be used to predict how an organism evolves, but how can such predictions be rigorously tested? Researchers have now ...