What are ways species exchange genes with each other? Hybridization and gene flow are shortcuts to biodiversity that don’t always involve differentiation. By continuing to study hybridizing ...

providing a clearer picture of when modern humans began their migration into Eurasia. Benjamin Peter, a researcher involved in the study, explained that the gene flow was complex. “We show that ...

“The polar bear’s recent directional gene flow northward is something new,” study coauthor Elizabeth Peacock of the US Geological Survey said in a statement. “In our analyses that focused on more ...

In natural populations, the mechanisms of evolution do not act in isolation. This is crucially important to conservation geneticists, who grapple with the implications of these evolutionary ...

They also noted that the reduced migration of elephants is also affecting ... infrastructure may have further reduced gene flow between northern and southern populations. They advocated for ...