Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

A 300,000-year-old skull found in China may belong to a completely unknown human species—rewriting everything we thought we ...

This manuscript introduces a useful protein-stability-based fitness model for simulating protein evolution and unifying non-neutral models of molecular evolution with phylogenetic models. The model is ...

he explained. Musk, who is also the founder of SpaceX, often discusses themes related to the long-term future of human civilisation, space exploration, and technological advancement, framing ...

Abstract: In bioinformatics, protein multiple sequence alignment (MSA) and phylogenetic tree construction are among the major problems for which many algorithms have been developed to improve the ...

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This ambitious project has resulted in the most complete bird evolutionary tree to date. To build this comprehensive phylogenetic tree ... tree has broad potential applications for studying bird ...

The team also designed the dataset to update automatically as new phylogenetic information about birds becomes available. Crucially, similar techniques used to construct this evolutionary tree can ...