Evolutionary genetics challenges a recent two-person origin for the entire human population. It does not necessarily ...

Evolution is hard to model mathematically, but a new study may have found a way to do just that with some inspiration from an ...

This article explains the development and evaluation of GISMO and GISMO-mis, new constraint metrics that utilize mammalian ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Rerunning tumour evolution in mice shows how cancer develops after DNA damage and reveals that background genetics and acquired mutations interact to shape genome stability and selection. This ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much more complicated family history than the popular version suggests.

A PLOS Genetics review argues that low recombination near centromeres may explain extensive sex-linked regions without ...

Paired appendages—the pectoral and pelvic fins of fishes and the forelimbs and hindlimbs of tetrapods—were a major innovation ...

Tracking the origin and evolution of human populations in Arabia / Jeffrey I. Rose and Michael D. Petraglia -- The Red Sea, coastal landscapes, and hominin dispersals / Geoff Bailey -- Pleistocene ...

When The Scientist first interviewed Mohamed Noor back in 2012, he was already an award-winning, established researcher in genetics and evolution at Duke University. His early work in Drosophila ...

Within these secluded pockets of the world reside creatures of astonishing form and color, exhibiting traits that seem to defy the ordinary. Among these natural wonders, the concept of “shiny wild” ...