Humans have long viewed themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, labeling other species as “primitive” or using terms like ...

A species is a population of organisms that interbreeds and has fertile offspring. Living organisms have descended with modifications from species that lived before them. Natural selection explains ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

1. Basics in molecular evolution -- 2. Basics in bioinformatics and statistics -- 3. Functional divergence after gene duplication: statistical modeling -- 4. Functional divergence after gene ...