The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia ...

The molecule Wnt, which plays a role in cell communication during human development, evolved from a superfamily with a shared lipid-modifying mechanism originally involved in bacterial defence and ...

In 1835, Charles Darwin gazed at coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean, and these intricate marine structures sparked his thoughts on the evolution of life. Nearly two centuries later, Darwin's inquiry abo ...

University researchers uncovered that dipeptides, basic protein building blocks, played a central role in shaping the genetic ...

Researchers have described a large set of previously unrecognized enzymatic domains—named the Lipocone superfamily—and outlined their evolutionary pathway from bacterial defense molecules to key ...

A new study unveils the most comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary history of flowering plants to date. The research analyzed 1.8 billion letters of genetic code from more than 9,500 species ...

Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...