European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is inherited without leading to speciation.

Is ethnocentrism wrong? It is certainly an ineffective way of getting people to like you or to respect you. It is an effective way of getting people to fear and resent you. If science adopts such a ...

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...

Not everything inside us is, strictly speaking, us. The closer we look at the genome, the more we appreciate the role of small RNAs in what we call epigenetic inheritance. That's when traits get ...

A research team has recently made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the DNA copying machine helps pass on epigenetic information to maintain gene traits at each cell division.

A study published in Science reveals a cellular mechanism involved in the inheritance of genetic mutations. The study also ...

For years, anecdotal evidence and old wives' tales suggested various origins for intelligence, but what does modern science actually say? Get ready to put those family debates to rest, because we're ...

Jukka Koskela, a senior researcher at the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine, studies the complex genetics of various diseases, including rare diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. Koskela began ...