In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...

The development of hair was of central importance for the evolution of mammals and thus also of humans. However, the evolutionary origin of the genetic program of hair was previously unknown.

In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally evolved gene-editing system that can activate genes, offering an advantage ...

As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

Anopheles darlingi mosquitoes-a major vector of malaria in South America-are evolving in response to insecticides, which may make them harder to kill and malaria more difficult to control, according ...

THE racial history of man cannot be elucidated by the physical anthropologist alone. The most that he can do is to describe the physical characters of large or small groups of men, recent and extinct, ...

Engineered cells are a high-value genetic asset that is key to many fields, including biotechnology, medicine, aging, and stem cell research, with the global market projected to reach $8.0 trillion ...