Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...

When Charles Darwin first proposed how evolution works in 1859, it seemed plausible. Tiny changes stack up over time, eventually leading a species to become something entirely different. Aside from ...

A re-creation of a Neanderthal on display at the National Museum of Prehistory in France shows what this prehistoric human cousin may have looked like. PIERRE ANDRIEU/AFP/Getty Images There may have ...

Tangles in unwound DNA can create mutational hotspots in the genomes of bacteria, according to a new study by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. The study authors say these ...

Modern medicine’s ability to keep us alive makes it tempting to think human evolution may have stopped. Better healthcare disrupts a key driving force of evolution by keeping some people alive longer, ...

Molecules called polymerases help to faithfully copy the genetic information stored in single strands of DNA Researchers have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA ...

From sandy beaches to hospital rooms, humans are leaving their DNA behind everywhere they go, scientists have found. Researchers analysed samples gathered from the environment in the US and Ireland, ...

In a study published today in Nature, researchers at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge show that mitochondrial DNA also appears in some cancer DNA, suggesting that it ...

Evolution is a change in the inherited characteristics of a population over time through the process of natural selection, which may result in the formation of new species. Darwin is associated with ...

Best friends forever: dogs were the first domesticated animal. But how and when did they first emerge? Swedish researchers say that dogs may have been domesticated much earlier than some other studies ...

Molecules called polymerases help to faithfully copy the genetic information stored in single strands of DNA Researchers have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA ...