Did you know that genes can mask and alter the effects of other genes? Could this process, called epistasis, be a key to understanding complex conditions like Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes?

Traditional life history theory ignores trade-offs due to social interactions, yet social systems expand the set of possible trade-offs affecting a species evolution—by introducing asymmetric ...

For over a century, biologists have had to contend with a complicated picture of genetics, which they’ve only recently begun to understand. Does an unseen force lurk within genetics? Biologists have ...