Weeds have always been a significant problem for agriculture. They compete with crops for resources such as light, water and nutrients, which can result in severe yield losses. The introduction of ...

Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for ...

In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have uncovered a new model of human ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

This research topic explores the integration of multiscale landscape genomics to uncover the intricacies of adaptive evolution, particularly in response to ...

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes with those of living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people ...