The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

A new study by investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School is providing one of the most detailed ...

Evolution is hard to model mathematically, but a new study may have found a way to do just that with some inspiration from an ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds.

A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...

De novo gene evolution describes the process by which entirely new genes originate from previously non-coding DNA rather than from the duplication and divergence of existing genetic material. This ...

Olfactory receptor (OR) genes, representing the largest multigene family in mammalian genomes, have undergone extensive evolutionary modifications characterised by dynamic patterns of gene duplication ...

About sixty percent of the genomes of human beings and bananas are similar. So does that mean we are bananas? Well, no - only in a figurative sense. The regulation of gene expression is essential to ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...