Research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and genetic history.

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

In "The Descent of Man," he described the appendix as a vestige: a leftover from plant-eating ancestors with larger digestive organs. For more than a century, that interpretation shaped both textbook ...

The arterial vasculature is the second most frequently calcified structure in the human body after the skeleton. Calcification of the aorta and aortic valves occurs in most individuals in westernized ...

Could the shapes of living organisms be guided not only by evolution but also by deeper physical and informational constraints? In the 1800s, scientists held varied views on what determined biological ...

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Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain fundamental laws of inheritance. When you purchase through links on our ...

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For well over a century, Darwin's theory of natural selection has served as biology's grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential reproduction of ...

Mingyuan Zhu, Ph.D., and Bo Zhou, Ph.D. have joined the Texas A&M Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics as assistant professors and Roop Fatima Jaffri, Ph.D., as a lecturer. Zhu will focus on ...