In Lake Malawi, hundreds of species of cichlid fish have evolved with astonishing speed, offering scientists a rare opportunity to study how biodiversity arises.

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Koalas’ population comeback may be doing more than boosting numbers—it could also be rebuilding their lost genetic diversity.

A large-scale genomic study of koalas across eastern Australia has found that populations that went through severe ...

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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 ...

There is a good chance that many of you watching right now have a dog somewhere nearby. But what do you actually know about where dogs come from? You're probably aware they evolved from wolves, but ...

A new study published in Science is challenging long-held assumptions about how we measure genetic risk in endangered species ...