Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Viral genomes represent essential elements of the phylogeny of life and have played ... for genomic classification within the phylogenetic tree, are not polyphyletic and are capable of being ...

An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published ...

That picture (below) comes in the form of a “timetree”—a phylogenetic ... who want to understand evolution on a larger scale. And it means that building a true Tree of Life—one that ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

This useful study presents computational analyses of over 5,000 predicted extant and ancestral nitrogenase structures. While the data and some analyses are solid, the study remains incomplete in ...

Discover the most complete fossil of Mixodectes pungens, shedding light on early mammalian evolution, its arboreal lifestyle, ...

A new study has unveiled when chronic myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, arises in ...

the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an Archaea and a Bacteria have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the phylogenetic tree until the emergence of the ...