The findings may advance scientific understanding and treatments for inherited and age-related diseases in people, according ...

Researchers have pinpointed a genetic mutation and evolutionary process that appears to have optimized horses’ speed and ...

Horses have a rare genetic adaptation that helps improve athleticism. This evolutionary mechanism could improve human ...

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins recently uncovered a fascinating evolutionary twist that helps explain horses’ metabolic superpower. In work published in Science ...

In the full study, conducted in collaboration with the Castiglione Lab at Vanderbilt University and partially funded by the ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

This balance is called the "evolutionary stable strategy." To noted evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith, life is essentially about information -- how information is stored, passed on ...

In January 1870, Thomas Henry Huxley, a British paleontologist nicknamed “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his fierce advocacy of evolutionary theory, used fossils to trace the horse back 60 million ...

“Native Horse” looks at the evolution of horses in North America by placing Indigenous Lakota science alongside ground-breaking DNA research. Today, new discoveries in Western science have ...