A bright red splash on a butterfly’s wing is more than a pretty pattern. It is a warning label, honed by millions of years of ...

Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial ...

Galapagos daisies evolved similar jagged leaves through different genes. This shows evolution can reach the same result in ...

Shapes of beaks and snouts come in an extraordinary range of forms, reflecting adaptations to different lifestyles and ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

Genome assemblies from 65 individuals, representing a variety of the world’s populations, are advancing the scientific exploration of complex genetic structural variation. Structural variations are ...

Humans are still evolving, and Tatum Simonson, PhD, founder and co-director of the Center for Physiological Genomics of Low Oxygen at University of California School of Medicine, plans to use ...