Harvard researchers studying yeast have found evidence that sexual reproduction can provide an evolutionary advantage, ...

How many parents does it take to make a family? According to a new study, just one. In a striking experiment, researchers in ...

Why is there sex—or, more precisely, sexual reproduction? If you're an evolutionary biologist, the answer isn't obvious.

A team led by biologists at The University of Texas at Arlington has published a study supporting the theory that species that reproduce asexually have more harmful genetic mutations than those ...

The evolution of sexual reproduction in living beings is one of the biggest mysteries in biology. There are two known modes of reproduction: asexual, where the organism creates clones of itself, and ...

THERE’S no way sex could ever be considered a good solution for reproduction among organisms like us- eukaryotes with complex information contained within membraned cells. After all, the exponential ...

Studying a species of beetle mite, an international research team has demonstrated for the first time that animals can survive over very long periods of time (possibly millions of years) entirely ...

Recombination and sexual reproduction lie at the heart of evolutionary innovation, reshuffling alleles to generate genetic diversity and enabling populations to adapt to shifting environments. Meiotic ...

If you’ve ever had a spiny leaf insect as a pet, or you’re considering getting one, hopefully someone has warned you about this: if you put one in your enclosure, you might come back some time later ...

In the debate over human origins and the nature of sexual reproduction, religious and scientific perspectives often diverge. The Bible claims man came first, with women derived from man’s rib. Yet, ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) Why are most organisms sexual? The question of why most species reproduce sexually and others reproduce asexually has stymied biologists for years (particularly since asexual ...