According to a study from McGill University, plants collected centuries ago and preserved, flattened, in herbaria around the ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

New findings, published in Nature, help answer the riddle of how vertebrates evolved the diverse array of brain cells that ...

The study outlines a new scenario for understanding how genome regulation and chromatin organization influence the evolution of animal body plans. The conservation of genome regulatory elements over ...

Sloths are the slowest mammals on the planet, but living in dense jungles has made them notoriously difficult to study. For ...

Advances in high-throughput sequencing and population genomics have transformed our understanding of how wild organisms adapt to heterogeneous and changing environments. By combining whole-genome ...

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce ...

The Code as Witness written by Steven C. Quay is part scientific investigation, part policy strategy, and part warning about ...

The Iberian peoples who inhabited the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age preserved their genetic identity ...

Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the size of Yosemite National Park, and investigating how decades of radiation ...