Padma Bhushan awardee Prof. P. Balaram explores the link between Mendelian genetics, Darwinian evolution, and chemistry at ...

Some colorful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model ...

Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our future.

Geneticists have sought to understand the impact of genetic mutations, and what drives and maintains changes in DNA. Researchers have now reconstructed the evolution of a set of genes, and the ...

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 ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

Male spotted ratfish have true teeth on a forehead appendage used for mating. Across vertebrates, teeth share many defining traits. Regardless of their shape, size, or sharpness, they stem from the ...