Can a snake in Thailand influence the evolution of a snake in the Philippines even if the two species never cross paths?

A new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges a longstanding idea that stems from ...

Long before vertebrates walked on land, millipedes had the place to themselves. Hundreds of millions of years before ...

Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

Gabriel D. Victora's team has turned germinal centers into a living laboratory for one of biology's oldest questions: how ...

Taking a close look at our genetic blueprint reveals a surprising evolutionary drama that is unfolding right inside our cells ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

The answer has less to do with morning people’s discipline than with deep evolutionary history, and a molecular clock ticking ...

A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large ...