Saliva genes evolved faster than most body systems, revealing how food, pathogens, and environment shaped the modern human ...

“We found that dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull shapes and sizes more than 11,000 years ago — long before ...

Low soil nutrients slow rye’s gene mixing, a study shows, offering new insight into how environmental stress shapes crop ...

Behavioral traits get passed on via an animal’s genetics, but a new study reveals that the microbiome can pass them on too, ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Volcanic Origins Created Perfect Isolation The Galápagos Islands were formed millions of years ago through volcanic activity.

Neanderthals living in Ukraine’s Crimea region deliberately shaped ochre into crayon-like tools for making marks and designs.

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