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

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier ...

Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

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 ...

MacColl (1) suggests that reproductive isolation and divergence in our stickleback study populations (2) predate postglacial lake colonization and were already present in two distinct colonizing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cephalochordates (amphioxus or lancelets) are invertebrate chordates that diverged first in the chordate lineage leading to the vertebrates. Thus, their genomes can help reveal the genetic basis of ...

This important study explores whether complex structures that are lost during evolution can re-evolve, which is a long-standing debate in evolutionary and developmental biology. The authors ...

The steady influx of newcomers to Washington from around the country has weakened significantly since before the pandemic, new data from the Washington Department of Licensing shows. Last year, about ...