Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations ...

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 ...

Research from UChicago dissects how a single genetic switch helps butterflies mimic wing patterns of other species to protect ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have uncovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations in ...

G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000)- an appreciation / Peter H. Raven -- Solution to Darwin's dilemma: discovery of the missing Precambrian record of life / J. William Schopf -- The chimeric eukaryote: ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...

A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to 200 million childhood infections every year could be possible, experts say.