A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team led by Nicole Grunstra from the University of Vienna and Anne Le Maître from the ...

A series of whole genome and gene duplication events that go back hundreds of millions of years have laid the foundations for tissue-specific gene expression, according to a new study. The 'copy-paste ...

Introduction to the show's theme: the "arms race" between predator and prey as a driving force in evolution. Example where a microbe is predator, humans are prey Russian prisons have spawned a deadly ...