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Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

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For most of human history, green eyes didn’t exist. Understanding why they do now means rethinking what we know about evolution itself.

A new review highlights how human evolution has shaped the presence of pathogenic variations in DNA damage repair (DDR) genes, offering a new perspective on why modern populations face increased ...

Randolph Nesse, MD, is a research professor of life sciences at Arizona State University. For more about evolutionary medicine, see the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health.