Genetic drift results from the random inheritance of different genes from an organism's parents. Natural selection, by contrast, occurs when populations within a species change over time due to ...

Purdue-led fishing expedition nets new pupfish family member in New Mexico Genetic drift, not natural selection, identified as main factor driving speciation in the endangered species ...

Genetic Drift and the Founder Effect: Eastern Pennsylvania is home to beautiful farmlands and countryside, but it's also a gold mine of information for geneticists, who have studied the region's ...

That also failed to explain the genetic differences. So did random genetic changes that accumulate over time, called genetic drift. The team of scientists argues that "an alternative evolutionary ...

Learn why differences in the mitochondrial DNA of great white sharks have bewildered scientists for over 20 years.

Decades of artificial selection and inbreeding in closed systems can lead to genetic drift and bottlenecks, weakening traits ...

The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in partnership with Canterbury Museum, the Ngāi Tahu Research Center and ...