A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

When the worst drought on record struck parts of the US West Coast and Mexico, many plants didn’t make it. But against the odds, the scarlet monkeyflower managed to weather the hardship and continue ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought to have descended from a single lineage, is now believed to be the product ...

A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 years ago.

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two ...

Jason Munshi-South joined the Drexel faculty in 2024 as the Betz Endowed Chair of Ecology and Professor in the BEES department. Jason’s research program is dedicated to understanding how wildlife ...