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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Why humans uniquely live long enough to become grandparents
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Evolution of grandparents may explain genes that protect against dementia
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Do genes explain why some nationalities are better at sports?
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Neanderthal fossils help explain evolution of human face
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Biologists divided over what is a ‘species’
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Fossils provide evolutionary window into how epigenetics works
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Are Y chromosomes, and men, really on road to extinction?
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Controversy whether tardigrade product of massive horizontal gene transfer
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Genes offer clues to why grandparents remain mentally alert
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Nature or nurture: Which makes you who you are?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's an age-old debate: ...
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