The results revealed a clear sequence. Enzymes predating cannabis showed no ability to process CBGA. The first enzyme unique ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...

A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...

New research suggests that determining evolutionary trees of organisms by comparing anatomy rather than gene sequences is misleading. The study shows that we often need to overturn centuries of ...

We humans evolved to be social creatures. By gaining the skills to cooperate with others, we were able to stave off predators, eat more consistently, and care for each other’s young, allowing our ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

The rapid evolution of many pathogens, particularly RNA viruses, means that their evolution and ecology occur on the same timescale, and therefore must be studied jointly to be fully understood. The ...

Joseph L. Graves Jr. offers a memoir and more in ‘A Voice in the Wilderness’ It’s both good and bad that the first Black American to earn a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology is not a long-ago hidden ...