Quantitative trait locus mapping techniques, genome-wide association studies and next-generation sequencing technologies have led to the discovery of genes that drive domestication and that lead to ...

An intriguing study involving walking stick insects shows how natural selection, the engine of evolution, can also impede the formation of new species. An intriguing study involving walking stick ...

Molecular evolutionary biologist Masatoshi Nei says Darwin never proved natural selection is the driving force of evolution — because it isn't. In a cavernous concert hall, before an eager audience of ...