Researchers of the Melnick Lab, led by Prof. Ari Melnick, medicine, recently published a study identifying a key mutation that disrupts the B-cell natural selection process during immune response, ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides the first empirical evidence connecting the ...

Exactly how life arose out of non-living matter is a major mystery, and a new study has found that natural selection may have played a role before life itself even existed on Earth. By recreating the ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...

Dr. Rochelle Walensky,director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, recently described the delta variant of the COVID-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus thusly: “(It) is showing everyday its ...

Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath Modern medicine’s ability to keep us alive makes it tempting to think human evolution may have stopped. Better ...

Have you ever come across a statement like this: “I can’t believe that something as beautiful and complex as the human eye could be the result of a random process like evolution”? Or this: “It seems ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

Gustave Flaubert was of the opinion that the three necessary conditions for happiness were stupidity, selfishness, and good health. Of the three, stupidity was the most important, he thought. Instead, ...