“We can’t tell [the two different] scenarios apart,” says Anders Bergström, an evolutionary ... the genome of today’s dogs, creating an ancient genetic family tree. As a whole, the ...

but, as we first reported in November, a scientist at Duke University says the term that may best describe dogs' evolutionary success is survival of the friendliest. There is no doubt, dogs are an ...

We looked at evolutionary trees based on appearance or on molecules for 48 groups of animals and plants, including bats, dogs, monkeys, lizards and pine trees. Evolutionary trees based on DNA data ...

Chernobyl Frogs: Evolution in Action In 2016, the researchers Pablo Burraco and Germán Orizaola began examining the way that eastern tree frogs were responding ... rigorous enough to support the idea.

The same principle is at play when it comes to evolutionary trees, a study in the journal Communications Biology suggests. Researchers say the method by which animals are sorted into evolutionary ...

While this may seem to heavily imply that these dogs have undergone some type of rapid mutation or evolution due to radiation exposure, this study is only a first step in proving that hypothesis.

At the Duke Puppy Kindergarten – a “preschool” for service dogs – Evolutionary Biologists, Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, show Shane that dogs have an unmatched ability to understand human ...