Bubonic plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the pathogenic bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is spread by rodents. In the fourteenth century, a wave of bubonic plague dubbed the Black Death ...

A team of global experts has discovered new signals of natural selection in humans. Led by UC Santa Barbara Tsimane Health and Life History Project co-director Michael Gurven, the team studied two ...

New research from Michigan State University suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. Reporting in the journals New ...

Exactly how life arose out of non-living matter is a major mystery, and a new study has found that natural selection may have played a role before life itself even existed on Earth. By recreating the ...