A controversial new paper argues these widely trusted tests might be fundamentally flawed — and potentially dangerous.

In the grand tapestry of Earth’s ecosystems, it’s often the smallest beings that wield the most significant influence. From ...

But an eight-year study published on Wednesday in Nature suggests that, from the sixth to the second centuries B.C., Levantine Phoenicians made only a negligible genetic contribution to Punic ...

These panels show the drift pattern in the Haldane model and the standard WF model ... The companion study is one such example. Strains were constructed on the genetic background of Saccharomyces ...

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past 45,000 years. Findings indicate that lighter pigmentation traits emerged ...

Designing effective curricula is challenging. Content decisions can impact both learning outcomes and student engagement. As an example consider the place of Hardy-Weinberg equilibria (HWE) and ...

GA has a dependency on genetic diversity just like thriving species of any habitat. In the natural world, isolated species and small populations amplify genetic drift, increasing their chances of loss ...