A recent study has shown that the human ancestral DNA plays a crucial role in defining an individual's longevity.

Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution ...

Some tomatoes have evolved to possess the characteristics of their ancestors. While it is rare, there have been instances of species displaying traits from further back in evolution. But for the first ...

How do scientists figure out relationships between living things? Some scientists compare every single feature of every single organism to try to work out their evolutionary relationships. But, ...

Scientists are investigating the production of ancestral alkaloids by tomatoes in the Galápagos Islands. Adam Jozwiak / University of California, Riverside Some tomatoes growing on the Galápagos ...

Earwax might seem like an unlikely source of ancestral information, but this small substance holds genuine clues to your genetic heritage. Scientists have discovered that the type, texture and even ...

Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary origins of primate masturbation and found it was an ancestral trait that goes back to the ancestor of all monkeys and apes. When you purchase through links ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The majority of plants have leaves, petals and seed structures in spirals that follow the Fibonacci sequence, meaning each sequence is the sum of the ...

This study is led by Professor Dong Ren and Dr. Jiajia Wang (College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University). The obvious aggregations, a large gathering of adult caddisflies, were found in six ...