Humans have become one of the world's greatest evolutionary forces. To survive our cities, animals from urban foxes to glass-climbing lizards are responding with extreme adaptation.

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Jonathan R. Goodman is a social scientist in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK, and the author of Invisible Rivals (2025). Force of Nature: Understanding Evolution’s Deepest ...

Scientists have reconstructed the complete genome of a real person, with full sets of chromosomes from each parent, a ...

But did our direct ancestors interbreed with other long-lost hominin lineages before the first major migrations out of Africa ...

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Psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and ADHD can be debilitating for those who have them. And yet, they're partially heritable, presenting a paradox. Why would ...

Angelic: Dark Symphony is a cinematic sci-fi RPG featuring neo-human heroes, tactical turn-based combat, and a colony lost in ...

A new study uses age-stratified allele frequencies to map ongoing natural selection and rare pathogenic variants.