In cooperative societies – like elephants or whales – natural selection seems to favour genetic mechanisms that suppress ...

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the ...

New calculation of viral spread based on branching process theory suggests that rapid elimination of SARS-CoV-2-like viruses ...

All life everywhere is shaped by the subtle touch of evolution, but given our mastery over our environment, has human evolution completely stopped?

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...

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

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly ...

For thousands of years, Europeans had dark skin. New DNA reveals that pale skin only became common in Europe just 3,000 years ...

Humans navigate today's world with a genetic profile largely the same as that of our Paleolithic ancestors, which has ...

EVE is a deep generative model combining evolutionary and human population data to estimate variant deleteriousness on a proteome-wide scale.

Vector-borne diseases such as dengue, malaria, Zika, Chagas, and leishmaniasis pose significant socio-environmental ...