Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...
No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...
A new genome-based study suggests that ancient sharks like frilled and cow sharks could sit outside the family tree that ...
Researchers at the Technion have discovered how changes in genetic regulatory sequences can lead to alterations in the form ...
A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that organisms could get better at evolving over time. Researchers used a computer program to simulate organisms switching between beneficial and ...
Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for ...
From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...
A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...
When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...