New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Evolution's dynamic duo In genetics, variation provides the raw material for evolution. Populations with more genetic variation are generally better equipped to respond to environmental change.

These non-genetic ways of adapting may also help explain another puzzling aspect of evolution – evolvability, or why some organisms have a greater capacity to evolve than others.

An international team of researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The resulting datasets, shared in two back-to-back publications in the journal ...

Controlling our genetic destiny has long been a hankering of the “educated” class since Darwinian evolution caught the fancy of the elite. The term eugenics was coined by Darwin’s cousin, Francis ...