For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...

The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed down to its offspring. To suggest otherwise can provoke ...