(Diane Isabel/iStock/Getty Images) The world's population is shifting. We're living longer than ever before, with elderly ...

Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

Modern humans now routinely survive to advanced ages, in far greater proportions than ancestral populations, and thus experience the consequences of molecular pathways optimized for youth yet still ...

Some colorful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Developed by Dr. Simone Blomberg from The University of ...

Genetic diversity underpins the capacity of plant populations to respond to environmental change, resist disease and adapt to novel stresses. Within and between populations, variation arises through ...

Climate change is rapidly altering our environment—and posing major challenges for many animal species. Whether they can adapt depends largely on their genetic diversity. An international study ...

Today, researchers from leading institutions, including the University of Manitoba, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Polar Bears International, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and San Diego Zoo ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

A just-published article in the journal Nature—“Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia,” (Akbari et al, 15 April 2026)—describes how the development of agriculture in ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate and discussion not only in Darwin's own time, but for decades afterward. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the until the ...