(Diane Isabel/iStock/Getty Images) The world's population is shifting. We're living longer than ever before, with elderly ...

Scientists reveal Afro-textured hair, common in African populations, is a genetic trait likely shaped by evolutionary ...

Click here to view Volume I of this Research TopicThe domestication of animals and plants during the early Holocene marked a pivotal transition that led to ...

Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

Researchers have conducted a conservation genomics study on two critically endangered island oaks—Quercus bawanglingensis and ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Some colorful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Developed by Dr. Simone Blomberg from The University of ...

Genetic diversity underpins the capacity of plant populations to respond to environmental change, resist disease and adapt to novel stresses. Within and between populations, variation arises through ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate and discussion not only in Darwin's own time, but for decades afterward. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the until the ...

Today, researchers from leading institutions, including the University of Manitoba, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Polar Bears International, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and San Diego Zoo ...

Mental health clinicians are over five times more likely to see evolutionary explanations of anxiety as helpful for their patients, rather than the genetic approaches currently taught to trainee ...