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 ...

A Cornell-led study is challenging a decades-old explanation for how chromosomes exchange genetic material within the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

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 ...

(Diane Isabel/iStock/Getty Images) The world's population is shifting. We're living longer than ever before, with elderly people taking up a greater proportion of the people on the planet. And yet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A major genetics study uncovers how ancient human mixing in Oceania still affects immunity, evolution, and modern health. (CREDIT: ...

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 ...

Recent fossil discoveries and DNA analyses are transforming our perspective on the history of life on Earth. These findings ...

Mental health clinicians are over five times more likely to see evolutionary explanations of anxiety as helpful for their patients, rather than the genetic approaches currently taught to trainee ...