An international team of researchers planted the same genetic lines of Arabidopsis thaliana in outdoor gardens stretching ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

New study shows that plants evolve in under five years, but extreme heat still pushes many populations toward extinction.

In an unprecedented series of global field experiments launched ten years ago at the Max Planck Institute for Biology ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

Researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The resulting datasets, shared in two back-to-back publications in the journal Nature, constitute what may be ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also threatens to reduce the amount of genetic diversity—or variation—within species ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Modern humans descended from ...