Ancestry & Evolution
The desire to understand our origins is primal. By examining our DNA over successive generations through the evolutionary process of inherited characteristics of human and animal populations–as well as from those species from which humans share a common ancestry–we can decipher our individual and collective past and develop medical innovations for the future.
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Should geneticists drop ‘race’ as a biological concept?
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Is embryonic gene editing research slippery slope to designer babies?
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How do genes evolve?
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Genetic evidence reveals extensive inbreeding between humans, other hominids
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Computer model answers questions surrounding Neanderthal extinction
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Is ‘free will’ compatible with neuroscience?
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Should doctors, scientists stop grouping us by race?
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Gene editing unnatural? Actually it happens frequently in nature
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Is world ready for gene editing in human embryos?
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Is it wrong to ‘play God’ with human genome?
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Can getting rid of old cells preserve health and youthfulness of whole organism?
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Viruses and fungi: Forgotten neighbors of human microbiome
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Lost in time: How has history forgotten 60,000 forcibly sterilized Americans?
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Burial site calls to question Roman Empire’s influence on Britain’s genes
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Has time come to retire ‘selfish’ image of genes?
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Error found in study of first ancient African genome may change story of early human migration
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Heritable mutations significantly impact cancer risk
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Why do humans, unlike any other species, have chins?
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India’s ancient caste system left lasting mark on modern genomes
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Do skeptics of consensus science on political left constitute ‘new creationists?’
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Ape-to-human, pig-to-human blood donations: Could xenotransfusions work?
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Some ‘junk’ DNA more than just extra baggage in genome
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Chromosomal abnormality could theoretically create new human species
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Genetic analysis reveals striking diversity of Mexican people
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