The Genetics Revolution

On 24 November 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, presenting his theory of evolution — the most consequential idea in the history of biology. Drawing on observations f…

On 25 April 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their landmark paper in Nature describing the double-helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The structure explained how genetic information could be cop…

On 14 April 2003, the Human Genome Project (HGP) consortium announced the completion of a high-quality sequence of the human genome, two years ahead of schedule and under budget. The project, a 13-year international coll…