A new study reveals that female sperm whales maintain an invisible genetic barrier, redefining their population ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

The life sciences focus on patterns, processes, and relationships of living organisms. Life is self-contained, self-sustaining, self-replicating, and evolving, operating according to laws of the ...

A comparison with the environmental settings and biological adaptations of nearly 6,000 terrestrial mammalian species demonstrates the profound advantages of human cultural adaptations.

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist generations after the initial event. The escalating effects of climate change ...

In the decades between Darwin's Origin of Species and the rediscovery of mendelian inheritance, there were a number of attempts to construct mathematical theories of heredity and evolution. All failed ...

New research reveals that the tendency to feel a shiver down the spine when listening to a beautiful song or looking at a striking painting is partly tied to a person’s DNA. The findings suggest that ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate ...

Young Western Australian magpies do not simply inherit their vocal repertoires. They learn specific call combinations from the social groups they grow up in, gradually assembling structured sequences ...

Too much linebreeding and prioritizing pedigree can narrow genetic diversity and lead to horse health problems in future generations of foals.