The fields of evolutionary, population, and conservation genetics are advancing rapidly, propelled by progress in high-throughput sequencing, spatial and ...

The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to ...

Polar bears are struggling to survive as Arctic ice disappears, limiting food, reducing habitat, and pushing their ability to adapt.

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Rajiv McCoy is a newly tenured Associate Professor within the Department of Biology at Hopkins. He is renowned for his ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

From color-changing skin to jet-propelled motion, squid and cuttlefish have long fascinated scientists. To understand the ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

Landmark legislation proposes a statutory ban on the use of predictive genetic test results in life insurance decisions and ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our species’ history.