The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from ...

My name is Mark Thomas, and I am a professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University College London (UCL). I work on various aspects of human evolution.

We are studying the evolution of human health and disease by analyzing the adaptive and evolutionary-genetic bases of the major human diseases that are mediated in part by genomic conflicts: placental ...

The Evolutionary Population Genetics Laboratory, directed by Bosch, wished to find out what changes are brought about by this genetic variation of Denisovan origin at the cellular level.

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

What should we call evolution driven by genetic engineering? Genetic welding, says researcher Date: March 31, 2023 Source: Cell Press Summary: With CRISPR-Cas9 technology, humans can now rapidly ...

This simplifies lineage tracing and can guide inferences of evolutionary relationships as part of phylogenetic analyses. mtDNA can also be used to study aspects of population genetics, such as ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine ...

Scientists in Japan used biochemistry and molecular and evolutionary genetics to determine that three unrelated plant lineages hit on the same evolutionary trick to produce the smell.