Even as humpbacks rebound in number, their genomes reveal a loss of genetic diversity and a buildup of harmful mutations left ...

Genetic research confirms remarkable continuity in Greek DNA from Minoan/Mycenaean times to today, with minimal foreign ...

My exposition here is borrowed from Evolutionary Genetics: Case Studies and Concepts (an excellent book which has been much blog fodder over the past few years). We start with the idea of statistical ...

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 ...

People often talk about random genetic drift. Like sexual selection it is the deus ex machina of choice when you are shit out of luck in regards to hypotheses. And yet though it looms large in our ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Scientists have identified a new member on the genetic family tree of an endangered pupfish native to south-central New Mexico. “We went into this thinking that there was one ...