The huge range of dog breeds that exists today is often thought of as a modern phenomenon, but new research suggests this ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have uncovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations in ...

Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

A study comparing lead exposure in Neanderthals, human ancestors and 20th-century humans poses a series of questions for further study.

ANN ARBOR—For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

As language models learn to interpret words in a sentence, protein language models learn how amino acids work together within ...

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