For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including fossils, genetic variation across populations and ancient DNA. Building on ...

A new study uses age-stratified allele frequencies to map ongoing natural selection and rare pathogenic variants.

Natural selection shapes the world in ways human engineers can mimic. Artificial intelligence offers opportunities to emulate ...

Researchers showed that AI-redesigned botulinum neurotoxin proteases provided more stable starting points for directed ...

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

LSE and NYU Professor Michael Muthukrishna on the "collective brain" and how Darwin wasn't first, neither was Newton. Here's why that matters for leaders.

At the recent RomaSposa international wedding exhibition, European bridal boutique owners and event designers expressed ...

Researchers report matrilineal social rank inheritance allows female spotted hyenas to accumulate greater long-term ...

On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work ...

Viral surveillance and predictive modeling are used to map mutational escape pathways and inform proactive antibody design against likely future variants rather than only current circulating strains.

These clues from the Galápagos led Darwin (immediately? long afterward? here the mythic story is vague) to conclude that ...