Humans and chimpanzees have been diverging for around 5 million years, during which time they've acquired major anatomical and cognitive differences, but New York–based researchers report this week in ...

More than a decade ago, researchers launched the BabySeq Project, a pilot program to return newborn genomic sequencing results to parents and measure the effects on newborn care. Today, over 30 ...

The biological units-of-selection debate has centred on questions of which units experience selection and adaptation. Here, I use a causal framework and the Price equation to develop the gene's eye ...

Researchers disagree on the number of genes in the human genome, in part because what exactly a gene is can be difficult to determine. At the turn of the century, while awaiting the completion of the ...

Guerra, Vanessa, I., Haynes, Gwilym, Byrne, Maria, and Hart, Michael W. 2021. "Selection on genes associated with the evolution of divergent life histories: Gamete ...

A new analysis of soldiers attempting to join the U.S. Army Special Forces suggests that specific genetic variations play a ...