A research team led by Iowa State University botanists confirmed cotton was domesticated from a diverse population native to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a potentially fruitful target for finding ...

Wild cotton, on left, has short, brown, and coarse fibers, while modern domesticated cotton has white, fine and abundant ...

In some species, the higher the population density, the more likely both mates will cheat and thus maintain genetic diversity. Some colonial nesters, like bank swallows and cliff swallows, commingle ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist generations after the initial event. The escalating effects of climate change ...

Crazed creep Jeffrey Epstein fathered multiple children in Nazi-like "superior gene pool" experiments, impregnating his sex slaves and using them as human incubators in a cruel baby-factory operation ...

In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...

The Amazon molly is an evolutionary enigma: an all-female fish that reproduces by cloning itself. Because it doesn’t mix its DNA with a mate’s, Darwinian logic holds that harmful mutations should pile ...

The Epstein files contain a diary entry from one anonymous victim who claimed she gave birth to a baby girl in 2002 when she was about 16 years old. The woman alleged that the dead s-- offender wanted ...