We may have complex brains but evolution hasn’t dealt us the best hand when it comes to genetics.
- Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
Many evolutionary changes also come with costs.
People who are suspicious of science often assume they are understand it well – and that others agree with them.
Natural selection isn’t the only factor deciding human evolution.
Researchers find striking results from a large study of secondary school students.
There’s long been a lack of evidence for why sex has become so much more common than asexual reproduction across nearly all species. Thankfully, this is now slowly changing.
Unlike other chromosomes, the X chromosome is inactivated in nearly all cells in women – and genes on it are active in very few tissues.
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