A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

New research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as well ...

In 2024 and 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of pups they called dire wolves. Using edited gray wolf DNA, scientists altered 20 genes to mimic dire wolf traits. But no actual dire wolf ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

Scientists are re-examining whether genetic changes remain the primary catalyst of human evolution, or if another factor has become more influential.

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function.

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function.

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

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