Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously ...

Biologists have revealed genetics behind the alternating sexes of walnut trees. The research reveals a mechanism that has been stable in walnuts and their ancestors going back 40 million years -- and ...

An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern ...

We often see the results of evolution, but not the process directly. Now, scientists have been treated to front row seats of ...

The genetics behind the alternating sexes of walnut trees have been revealed by biologists at the University of California, ...

A groundbreaking study by the Roslin Institute explores how whole genome duplication shaped the complexity and evolution of ...

Before flowering plants emerged, the gymnosperms, which have cone-like structures instead of flowers, dominated the plant ...

Over time, some of those dinosaurs sprouted feathers and took to the skies—and while their reptilian cousins died off, those ...

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His domed shell is as rough and ridged as damp tree bark. When I approach him—slowly ... return for showing the god Nanabosho ...

They are some of the most intensely studied species on Earth, and yet there is no comprehensive molecular phylogenetic hypothesis of primate evolutionary history that summarizes the pattern and timing ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...