Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy ...

Scientists uncover a 75,000-year-old Arctic ecosystem in Norway, revealing extinct mitochondrial lineages in polar bears, ...

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the ...

Toddlers can name a few animals. Older kids group animals into categories (birds, fish). And teenagers can sketch a rough ...

Scientists have discovered that modern potatoes evolved from a natural hybridization between ancient tomato and potato-like ...

Nine million years ago, in the shadow of the rising Andes Mountains, a key ancestor of the beloved modern-day potato was born ...

Ancient viruses left a legacy in your DNA. And it turns out, that legacy may be helping shape who you are.

A new study finds early humans ate tough grasses and tubers long before their teeth adapted, suggesting behavior, not biology, drove human evolution.

This manuscript presents an in-depth analysis of gene expression across multiple brown algal species with differing life histories, providing convincing evidence for the conservation of life ...

Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, Chongqing, China ...

Scientists have been thinking about how new species evolve since Darwin wrote On The Origin of Species in 1859. The results presented here call into question some of the most common explanations of ho ...

A chance encounter between a wild tomato and a potato-like plant 9 million years ago is why we have modern-day potatoes, ...