Drug discovery remains slow, expensive and unreliable, despite many technological advances in recent decades. The journey from a small-molecule screening hit to a candidate drug typically takes 4–5 ...

Ancient DNA provides transformative insight into the history of human adaptation via the ability to directly track genetic variant frequency changes across space and time. Analyses of human, archaic ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an ...

The microbiome comprises a multitude of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism. The interactions of body cells and the microbiome form a structural and often ...

The extinct Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, looked eerily similar to modern canids, a group of predatory carnivores that includes wolves, foxes, and domesticated dogs. But thylacines ...

Social login, for example, has been widely adopted by both businesses and consumers. Allowing users to verify their identities and log in to websites and mobile applications using existing profiles ...

We share the planet with a huge diversity of plants and creatures. But we can see similarities between organisms that live continents apart or are very different in other aspects. One reason for this ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Biological classification aims at establishing ordering systems for organisms. Principles of classification, however, differ in their criteria ...

Evolution is incredibly diverse, but at the same time super limited. All species must honor basic physics and unassailable biological limits (we’ll never see, for example, an animal with wheels… or at ...

Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1976), pp. 58-73 (16 pages) A quantitative and qualitative analysis of adult male-child patterns of association in Virginia (the United ...

Distancing itself from the days of locking up the Galileo's of the world, the Vatican has taken yet another stance in favor of evolution. Sort of. Pope Benedict spent this past weekend in a seminar ...