(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

According to a study from McGill University, plants collected centuries ago and preserved, flattened, in herbaria around the world could become valuable allies for monitoring genetic changes ...

Convergent phenotypic evolution, the independent acquisition of similar or nearly identical traits in multiple species, is widespread throughout the tree of life. These cases of repeated evolution ...

Acral melanoma is an aggressive type of melanoma with unknown origins. It is the most common type of melanoma in individuals with dark skin and is notoriously challenging to treat. We examine exome ...

A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not ...

The New Scientist Book Club’s read for June was Richard Dawkins’s "gene’s-eye view" of evolution, which turns 50 this year.

The deep sea is a unique "evolutionary engine," with one of the richest and most unexplored sources of genetic diversity on Earth, according to a major new study that assessed its potential to ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, may have prolonged the duration of ...