Rajiv McCoy is a newly tenured Associate Professor within the Department of Biology at Hopkins. He is renowned for his ...

Polar bears are struggling to survive as Arctic ice disappears, limiting food, reducing habitat, and pushing their ability to adapt.

The fields of evolutionary, population, and conservation genetics are advancing rapidly, propelled by progress in high-throughput sequencing, spatial and ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

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From color-changing skin to jet-propelled motion, squid and cuttlefish have long fascinated scientists. To understand the ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

A decades-long mystery surrounding the origins of the world’s most widely cultivated “magic mushroom” – Psilocybe cubensis – may finally be settled. New research suggests its evolutionary story is far ...

Is wit a sign of evolutionary fitness? A new study explores how "quick-wittedness" and ancient verb-noun compounds shaped the evolution of human grammar through sexual selection. Learn how "killjoys" ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

An international team, including scientists from Leipzig University, has gained important new insights into the regulation of ...