Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

Scientists have long thought an unusual genetic system helped ants, bees, and wasps evolve their extraordinary social ...

The curious minds at What If delve into the fascinating genetic history and prehistoric timeline to uncover the evolutionary breakthrough that connects humans and chimpanzees.

Rerunning tumour evolution in mice shows how cancer develops after DNA damage and reveals that background genetics and acquired mutations interact to shape genome stability and selection. This ...

The 2019 heat wave that struck Mo'orea—a volcanic island in French Polynesia—swept through its coral reefs like an invisible ...

Inside an ant colony, queens reproduce while workers care for young and maintain a society built around shared labor. For ...

A person’s genetic background can strongly influence not only whether they will develop cancer but also how that cancer progresses, suggesting that genetics plays a much larger role in cancer ...

The Jomon show signs of some genetic adaptations similar to those found in Greenlandic Inuit. (Alison Wright/Corbis ...

Scientists theorize that jumping genes, including introns, might play a role in evolution —even speeding up the process ...

Scientists have found that some viruses can deliberately generate genetic diversity to evade bacterial defences, offering a ...

A new genomic study from Smithsonian scientists traces the honeycreepers' explosive diversification to the formation of O'ahu millions of years ago, offering fresh insight into a group of birds now ...