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 ...

Whether it's more aggressive chickadees, snails with lighter coloring or pigeons with anti-pollution plumage, urban wildlife ...

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

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From snow white and jet black to golden brown, domestic chickens display a wider range of plumage colors than almost any other livestock species. A new international study, with researchers from ...

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 ...