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

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

When scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen set out to study how traits pass from one generation to ...

The enigmatic facial morphology of our Neanderthal cousins, characterized by a robust and prominent jaw, finds part of its ...

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

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colours and sizes. Today there are ...

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

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

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and ...