While all seeds produced within a fruit have the same maternal genome, the paternal genomes of seeds can come from the pollen ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The ...

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

Some scientists believe humans became bipedal to adapt to climate change, but our closest primate ancestors complicate that ...

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

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 ...

Potatoes might be one of your favorite foods, whether baked, fried, or mashed. But have you ever wondered where they came ...

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

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