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Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

From this trove of genetic information, researchers have already identified dozens of examples of relatively recent evolution. Anatomically modern humans migrated from Africa sometime between ...

Evolutionary genetics is the study of how genetic variation leads to evolutionary change. It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

For the past two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in ...

Of course, different genetic systems react differently to ... A single mutation can have a large effect, but in many cases, evolutionary change is based on the accumulation of many mutations ...

Research in Lake Mendota reveals seasonal bacterial evolution, with microbes adapting to environmental shifts over 20 years. Despite rapid changes, many species return to prior genetic states ...

The ecology and evolutionary biology (EBIO) graduate program provides advanced training in a wide variety of biological disciplines ranging from biogeochemistry to community ecology to evolutionary ...

Fish are easy to handle and produce numerous offspring, which could open up new possibilities for researchers in the fields ...