In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

A study from Harvard Medical School indicates that natural selection has favored the red hair gene, resulting in a potential ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

A comprehensive review in Biological Diversity maps two decades of breakthroughs in Chinese seed plant genetic diversity ...

Scientists and reef managers are calling for ‘assisted evolution’ to help accelerate coral reef adaptation in the face of ...

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...