The researchers identified regions with Neandertal ancestry in over 300 individuals. They assessed sharing of segments, inferred gene flow, and looked at variation to identify candidates for positive ...

New fossil and genetic evidence shows that woolly and Columbian mammoths were not just distant cousins roaming separate parts ...

Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered, curiosity about these ancient hominins has surged. How did they differ from us? Were there similarities? Did our ancestors coexist peacefully ...

New findings challenge assumptions about species’ ability to persist under climate change. Following a nine-year study of over 100,000 individual Drummond's rockcress plants – a common plant found in ...

Barley is one of the world's oldest cultivated plants, farmed for more than 10,000 years. Scientists have long believed it ...

The first war in the Torah starts 34 chapters into Genesis. Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, has attracted the interest of Shechem, the son of Hamor. He fell in love with her. “His soul was drawn to ...

A study is the first to evaluate substrate recolonization by sponges in the U.S. Virgin Islands after two catastrophic storms using genetic analyses to understand how much clonality verses sexual ...

Secondary contact and hybridization between recently diverged taxa have been increasing due to anthropogenic changes to the environment. Determining whether secondary contact leads to gene flow ...