A Cornell-led study is challenging a decades-old explanation for how chromosomes exchange genetic material within the ...

Bromeliads are one of the great evolutionary success stories of the neotropics, the tropical ecosystems of the Americas. The ...

Facing both climate change and a crashing pollinator population, plants may be evolving to attract pollinators rather than ...

A sweeping new genetic study has added a fascinating twist to the story of how humans first settled the Americas. By ...

A study from researchers connected to the University of Tubingen and the University of Cape Town looked at hybridization in ...

New research challenges the idea that self-fertilization is an evolutionary dead end and points to a more complex story.

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our ...

Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.

A recently published study adds more scientific weight to a claim the Trump administration is trying to discredit: The Rice’s ...

In a global breakthrough published in Nature Genetics, researchers have successfully mapped the cells and genes that regulate bone formation and loss at an unprecedented scale and discovered the ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious ...

Researchers have long wondered whether upper-class members of the ancient nomadic warriors earned their social status through ...