Explore how birds independently developed complex brain circuits, challenging beliefs about brain evolution and ancestry.

Agricultural films are essential for boosting land productivity, yet their widespread use has raised significant ecological ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

This implies that structural variation might be important for the dynamics of gene and organismal evolution. From the mounting evidence about CNVs alone, it is already clear that the contribution ...

C4 photosynthesis serves as a prominent example of convergent evolution in complex traits ... which is called cryptic variation. Using paralogous myosins, this study shows how cryptic variation ...

Government agencies are hard-pressed to not only regulate and prosecute cyber crimes and online scams, but also keep up with the rampant evolution of technology at large. Sadly this use of ...

The mystery surrounding the origins of human language continues to intrigue the scientific community. The ability to ...

A new UC study has looked at the evolutionary significance of super genes and their potential role in species survival.