By the time modern humans began filtering into Europe around 45,000 years ago, the Neanderthals they encountered were already ...

Eastern Pennsylvania is home to beautiful farmlands and countryside, but it's also a gold mine of information for geneticists, who have studied the region's Amish culture for decades. Because of their ...

Somewhere in the borderlands of West Africa, a small herd of forest elephants feeds in a fragment of lowland rainforest ...

Evolution isn’t a single, straightforward process – it works in several distinct ways. From species splitting apart over time ...

Neanderthals split into distinct regional groups that developed genetic differences far sooner than modern human populations typically did, according to a study published in Proceedings of the ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte—reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...