There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

the entire history of dogs and their relationship with humans has undergone some rethinking recently, thanks in large part to high-tech molecular dating methods that can determine evolutionary ...

Timothy Mousseau, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of South Carolina, said, “We have high hopes that what we learn from these dogs will be of use for understanding human exposures in ...

The mitochondrial genome was used because of earlier work by Vilà that showed the nuclear genomes of dogs and wolves to be too similar to study their molecular evolution. On the other hand ...