The most controversial fossil site in human evolution just got even more puzzling

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Why Do Humans Have A Philtrum? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains The Groove Above Your Lip

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building to vestigial anatomy.
New Scientist

Some of the last Neanderthals were surprisingly genetically diverse

Genetic analysis of Neanderthals in north-western Europe reveals that this population was surprisingly genetically diverse, ...
Nature

Beyond resistance and tolerance: rethinking evolutionary responses to antibiotics from the perspective of individual bacterial cells

Antibiotic resistance and tolerance are thought to be the key phenotypic traits that underpin evolutionary adaptation to antibiotics. However, the concepts of resistance and tolerance can be traced ...
Nature

Reference genome sequence and population genomic analysis of peas provide insights into the genetic basis of Mendelian and other agronomic traits

The y axis is the −log 10 (P value). Each dot represents an SNP. The horizontal dashed line represents the significant threshold (P < 4.63 × 10 −7, Bonferroni correction). Seeds of representative ...