The Major Histocompatibility Complex region evolves via gene birth-and-death, resulting in short-lived genes, rapidly expanding gene subfamilies, and many gene fragments.

A team of scientists from Monash University has identified a single gene in a land plant that could help explain how plants ...

CBSE has issued a strong warning for class 10 students. Mixed answers will lead to deduction in marks in 2026 board exams.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...