Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

The extinct Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, looked eerily similar to modern canids, a group of predatory carnivores that includes wolves, foxes, and domesticated dogs. But thylacines ...

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A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an ...

The microbiome comprises a multitude of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism. The interactions of body cells and the microbiome form a structural and often ...

Researchers have determined that there are hundreds of biological differences between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings ...

Drug discovery remains slow, expensive and unreliable, despite many technological advances in recent decades. The journey from a small-molecule screening hit to a candidate drug typically takes 4–5 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Biological classification aims at establishing ordering systems for organisms. Principles of classification, however, differ in their criteria ...

Evolution is incredibly diverse, but at the same time super limited. All species must honor basic physics and unassailable biological limits (we’ll never see, for example, an animal with wheels… or at ...