The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

New research has revealed an incredible discovery: modern humans carry 20% of their genetic material from a mysterious ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

A genetic mutation and evolutionary trick fuels horses' exceptional athleticism, findings that may advance scientific ...

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

As part of the process, viruses leave behind remnants throughout the genetic material (genomes ... These repeats drive genome evolution, but can also cause neurological diseases, cancer, and ...

Graham Coop, professor of evolution and ecology and director of the Center for Population Biology, has been elected to ...

In the full study, conducted in collaboration with the Castiglione Lab at Vanderbilt University and partially funded by the ...

Horses have a rare genetic adaptation that helps improve athleticism. This evolutionary mechanism could improve human ...

In short: social evolution is moving much faster than genetic evolution ... and the ways they process experience. But biology is always playing out in a context. And the context we live in ...

Researchers have pinpointed a genetic mutation and evolutionary process that appears to have optimized horses’ speed and ...