Li Zhao explores the unexpected emergence of de novo genes, shedding light on their crucial function in adaptation and ...

To make horses rideable during domestication, people may have inadvertently targeted a mutation in horses to strengthen their backs and their balance.

ASTANA – High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat ...

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross between tomatoes and a plant known as Etuberosum.

The Caucasus has long been a crossroads of civilisations. But why have the genes of its original inhabitants changed so ...

Originally published with subtitle: The stories in our genes. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016. With new foreword. NH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. In our unique ...

Throughout human history, there have been many instances where two populations came into contact—especially in the past few ...

With this evidence, researchers can now understand how the plague inundated the Byzantine Empire and set off one of the most ...