A new study conducted by the Institute for Biology Education has concluded that the way in which supporting knowledge of key ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

Large-scale comparison of gene families across 1154 Saccharomycotina genomes revealed that gene gains and losses drive yeast ...

Chinese researchers recently uncovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism—a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

Chinese researchers recently discovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism, a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

Boris Johnson is reported to have had nine children while Elon Musk is said to have had 14. What is the psychology that ...

Our ability to peer inside the human genome has shown that in fact our biology continues to change ... the way to redefining how we evolve? Does evolution now mean not just the slow grind of ...

May 26, 2025 — A gene that regulates the development of roots in vascular plants is also involved in the organ development of liverworts -- land plants so old they don't even have proper roots ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

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 ...