Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

Have you ever wondered how new species come into existence? Well, buckle up, because we’re about to dive into a moth-tivating ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

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Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

From this trove of genetic information, researchers have already identified dozens of examples of relatively recent evolution. Anatomically modern humans migrated from Africa sometime between ...

Evolutionary genetics is the study of how genetic variation leads to evolutionary change. It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and ...

An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published ...

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a ...

Genetic analysis of the giant woolly mammoth reveals a surprising amount of genetic diversity over a million years.

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...