University of Michigan researchers have used an AI tool to demonstrate that birds in the group Passeriformes evolved in rapid ...

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it ...

Researchers have put forth a theory that humans are no longer subject to natural selection for evolution, but instead that ...

A major research study is challenging one of evolution’s most influential ideas: that most genetic changes that become permanent are essentially neutral. Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

The microbiome comprises a multitude of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism. The interactions of body cells and the microbiome form a structural and often ...