When the worst drought on record struck parts of the US West Coast and Mexico, many plants didn’t make it. But against the ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate and discussion not only in Darwin's own time, but for decades afterward. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the until the ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

In Lake Malawi, hundreds of species of cichlid fish have evolved with astonishing speed, offering scientists a rare opportunity to study how biodiversity arises.

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. (CREDIT: Adobe Stock Images) The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells ...

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 ...

Genetic researcher Nathan Clark spoke about research his team at the University of Pittsburgh conducted on evolutionary genetics. The seminars are hosted weekly by the University of Wisconsin Genetics ...

"Based on a colloquium of evolutionary genetics of invertebrate behavior, held March 21-24, 1983, in Gainesville, Fla"--Title page verso. Contents Evolutionary behavior genetics / Guy L. Bush -- ...

There is a good chance that many of you watching right now have a dog somewhere nearby. But what do you actually know about where dogs come from? You're probably aware they evolved from wolves..but ...

A research team led by scientists at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, has completed the most extensive genetic sequencing of a jararaca viper to date. The focus of the study was the genome ...