Ancestry & Evolution
Scientist search brain for origins of risk-taking
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At Stanford University, a ...
Genetic analysis shows lasting effects of caste system on health of modern Indians
Modern genetic analysis shows that India's caste system still has a significant affect on the health and biology of modern ...
Voting genes: Are political views inherited?
There are dozens of studies showing correlations between genes political attitudes, but the fact is the genetic information in our ...
Video: Need more proof that evolution is real? Check out your own body
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vestigial structures are evolution's ...
Genetics of relationships and marriage
Many online dating services claim to use science to match people with their perfect mate. But the science of relationships ...
How will human germline modification drive future of reproduction?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Human germline engineering (HGE) ...
Extinct humans live on in our DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Denisovan DNA lives on ...
Evolutionary genetics found roots in early 20th century fruit flies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetics is a science ...
Newly created stem cell with half a genome may boost fertility treatments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sometimes less is more ...
Meat eating may have driven evolution of tool use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists recently turned Harvard’s ...
Pregnant T. rex fossil could shed light on evolution of egg-laying
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists examining the femur ...
Efficient thinking comes from learning what to ignore
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Let’s begin with a ...
Epigenetic inheritance may contribute to diabetes risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While scientists have identified ...
Oldest discovered human DNA pushes back Neanderthal-modern human split
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Matthias Meyer has just ...
CRISPR promises to revive endangered species, introduce new pets
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Until now, researchers had ...
What makes you a righty or a lefty?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. About 90 percent of ...
Genes don’t make entrepreneurs – money does
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We’re in an era ...
Eating meat drove evolution of face muscles
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Meat and tools, not ...
Shorter men, heavier women earn less than their colleagues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Taller men and slimmer ...
Do medical schools need to reevaluate how they teach race?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Medical students looking to ...
Genes identified that extend life
Is the secret to extending human life span written in our genes? Clues from other organisms suggest it might be ...
Prehistoric ‘hand’ stencil actually belonged to lizard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The roughly 8,000-year-old "hands" ...
What do identical twins reveal about genetics of human behavior?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In this article I ...
Instead of ashes, you can now save DNA from dead
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When a person’s time ...
We need genetics to understand psychology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are we shaped more ...
Geneticists question convention of ‘essential’ genes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Most genes are in ...
Talking Biotech: Story of the GMO Hawaiian papaya–Dennis Gonsalves who engineered it and family farms it saved
The human story behind the GM papaya and the Cornell scientist who returned home to save the traditional crop ...