For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Queen Mary University of London have discovered that a new generation of ash ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

The year 2025 marks a turning point in the cryptocurrency landscape. While a significant part of the digital ecosystem is ...

Natural selection is acting upon thousands of locations within the ash tree DNA, driving the evolution of resistance as the ...

The existence of ant colonies was a mystery even to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. How could evolution produce workers ...

Wall brown butterflies adapt quickly through evolution as the climate warms and they shift northward. They grow faster and ...

The wetland diet of adult flamingos—algae, brine fly larvae, and brine shrimp—is so rich in the red-orange beta-carotene ...

Alignment and sequencing errors are a major concern in molecular evolution, and this valuable study represents a welcome improvement for genome-wide scans of positive selection. This new method seems ...

Because that’s what we’ve been able to do. But evolution and natural selection has really never cared about single genes,” Hafen said. Instead, natural selection cares about phenotype, or the ...

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...