Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...

Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Mutations are essential to evolution. Every genetic feature in ... The consequence of doubling the genome size in plants is often abnormally large seeds or fruits, a trait that can be of distinct ...

“Hox genes seem to have a lot of constraint across evolution,” said Srivastava ... With the brittle star genome in hand, Marlétaz and his team investigated another important feature of the animal: ...

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...

Scientists uncovered how whole-genome duplication emerges ... do this by selecting yeast cells for larger size on a daily basis. "These long-term evolution studies help us answer big questions ...