Tag: evolution

The finding that Lokis have actin tentacles adds plausibility to a eukaryogenesis scenario called the inside-out model, Spang and Schleper ...

If they found a mutation in around 50 percent of an offspring’s DNA, they concluded that it was likely a ...

The neocortex stands out as a stunning achievement of biological evolution. All mammals have this swath of tissue covering their ...

Supergenes can also complicate the process of mating. In some species, supergenes create a breeding system that in effect has ...

Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound ...

For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD candidate at Princeton, and her team wanted to test stripe width to ...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or ...