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

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

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 ...

A new dataset of genetic information collected from 233 primate species, the largest and most complete of its kind, promises to yield insights into primates’ evolutionary biology and how genetics ...

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

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 ...

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

Around the world, women outlive men by an average of around 5.4 years. A distinction in life expectancy between sexes is ...