For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and ...

Researchers have identified evolutionary hotspots in DNA where mutations are more likely. The study authors say these findings will help us in the future to predict the evolution of bacteria and ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

The oldest DNA ever recovered from an animal is adding new chapters to mammoth life history, going back more than 1 million years. The findings “really highlight the exciting times that we live in,” ...