A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge ...

Stray dogs in Chernobyl reveal genetic changes after decades of radiation, offering unique clues about how life adapts in ...

This study explains why helpful DNA changes appear often but rarely spread, because environments shift too fast for evolution ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...

Gibbons, small apes closely related to humans, face severe threats to their survival. However, their evolutionary history has ...

A habitat-building coralline algae that provides a vital nursing ground for marine species and an important blue carbon ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

ANN ARBOR—For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ...

For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you ...