How Fearsome Wolves Became Loyal Dogs — and Changed Human History Forever
The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago, before or during the Last Glacial…
How do genetic association studies rank genes?
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 19 November 2025 Genome-wide association studies and rare-variant burden tests are the two main tools for…
Apes Were Kissing Millions of Years Before Humans, Study Suggests
While kissing might feel like one of the most natural things in the world, this familiar behavior is…
How Our Human Lineage Broke All the Rules of Vertebrate Evolution
A cast of the skull of Homo floresiensis, one of the hominin species analyzed in the latest study.…
Discover 10 amazing animal superpowers you never knew existed
Not all superpowers belong to superheroes. In the wild, evolution has granted animals abilities that stretch the limits…
Starlink rise and spectrum delays blamed as rural internet provider Evolution Networks goes into liquidation
Manning told the Herald: “We have advertised the business for sale as a going concern. All interested parties…
Genomics Reveals Snow Leopards Have Always Been Rare
Whole genome sequencing has revealed that snow leopards have low genetic diversity because they are rare, and probably…
Fueling chromosomal gene diversification and artificial evolution with CRISPR | Genome Biology
Wilson DS, Keefe AD. Random mutagenesis by PCR. Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 2001;51:8–3. Google Scholar Reetz MT, Wu…
Gene loss drives adaptive evolution of a pandemic pathogen
A study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, led by Chinese researchers, has revealed a surprising…
AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?
Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought…