Epigenetics

Studies suggest that epigenetics allows some learned adaptive responses to be passed down to new generations. The question is how.

Renee Reijo Pera has spent decades uncovering how the timing of embryonic development contributes to health and disease.

With a fully sequenced genome in hand, scientists hope they are finally poised to learn how axolotls regenerate lost body parts.

Preserving its DNA ought to be a cell’s top priority. But bacteria slow their DNA repair to a crawl in favor of proofreading gene transcripts.

New techniques expose unexpected diversity within seemingly uniform tissues.

Answering three questions can help reveal how the “inheritance of acquired characteristics” fits into modern evolutionary theory.

The biologist Marcus Feldman creates mathematical models that reveal how cultural traditions can affect the evolution of a species.

Recent discoveries have led some researchers to argue that the modern evolutionary synthesis needs to be amended.