As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring.

As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...

Researchers from Radboudumc, Department of Human Genetics, demonstrated something remarkable in a 2014 publication in Nature.

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

It's the first observation of "sympatric" evolution: that two species evolved from a common ancestor despite no geographical separation ...

"Octopus!" (Courtesy of Prime) These characteristics are compared to human traits, leading many to conclude that octopuses are remarkably intelligent. But as Piero Amodio, an animal behavior and ...

Barry Billcliff is an adventurer and pilot with a knack for exploring the world in unconventional ways. His journeys often ...

A generations-long culture of deep-diving among women on a South Korean Island may have changed their genetic evolution. A ...

An archive of works by the scientist Charles Darwin has been recognised by the United Nations for its importance to global science and the need to preserve it. The Unesco Memory of the World Programme ...

An archive of works by the scientist Charles Darwin has ... development of his theory of evolution. The archive is a collaboration between Cambridge University Library, the Natural History Museum ...