Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through generations, laying the foundations for new insights into the roots of ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, UCL, Gustave Roussy and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), have ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of South Florida are uncovering new clues about how animals evolve by studying rattlesnake ...

Exploring the reasons behind human and mammalian hairlessness, this article discusses the evolutionary advantages of sparse ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.