Aging changes gut bacteria in mice, weakening communication between the intestines and the brain. Restoring that connection ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

"Today, your wellbeing is determined less and less by your personal biology and more and more by the cultural systems that surround you – your community, your nation, your technologies. And the ...

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aVictorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Hospital Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3000, VIC, Australia bDepartment of ...

Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.” James Stroud ...

sNational Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infection, University of Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK tEmerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit, Department of ...

Humanity's influence on living organisms – both intentional and unintentional – is causing them to evolve in new and unusual ways. But how far could human-driven adaptation go? The bouncing orange ...

This year—2021—has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human evolution research. With some research projects around the world back up and running, we wanted ...

While the evolution of animals is often thought of as something that takes millions of years, it can also happen much faster. A new study, published today in Science, provides powerful evidence that ...

The evolution of floral traits in animal-pollinated plants involves the interaction between flowers as signal senders and pollinators as signal receivers. Flower colors are very diverse, effect ...