Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees.

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

This study provides a valuable new resource to investigate the molecular basis of the particular features characterizing the pipefish embryo. The authors found both unique and shared gene expression ...

Though the majority of blonde-haired people today come from Europe, the unique hair colour originated in a land that is a ...

Human evolution is far from a relic of the past, as a new study in Behavior Genetics demonstrates. By analyzing data from ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Evolution might allow for multiple optimal solutions, depending on the constraints and conditions under which an organism ...

Once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of ...

Scientists at the University of Oregon uncovered a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus, dating back 480 million ...