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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Sexiest dinosaurs may be those that dug deepest holes
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Similar genes linked to anxious behavior in chickens, mice, and humans
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Why are there still monkeys if evolution is real?
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Genes from ancient cousins help modern humans fight disease
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Does biology debunk ‘social construct’ view of race?
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What would world’s animal populations look like without humans?
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Bacteria give insights into randomness of evolution
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Animals may alter own DNA to cope with global climate change
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Gene therapy is doing all that we’d hoped for* *(so far)
New gene therapies are showing evidence of advancing our treatment of genetic diseases. Scientists are 5 years along the 15 ...
Twins point to genetic component of cancer risk
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Is it time to retire ‘good genes,’ ‘bad genes’ distinction?
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Here’s what 23andMe’s new test can tell you about your health
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Does biology support existence of human races?
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Global food shortage? How advanced breeding could domesticate 50,000 wild, edible plants
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Ancient Irish closely related to Middle Easterners, genome analysis shows
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Australian Aboriginals descendants of first migrants out of Africa
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Newly discovered human bones bring evolutionary timeline into question
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Not in our stars but our DNA: Is faith and embrace of religion (and astrology) hardwired?
Our beliefs, including irrational ones and an embrace of pseudoscience, have been shown to be largely independent of one’s educational ...
Are you acquainted with the critters on your face?
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Taboo: Modern genomics key to understanding basis of ‘race’
The fierce decades-long debate between postmodernist social scientists and population geneticists over the biological basis of group human differences is ...
CRISPR lets scientists rewrite organisms’ body plan
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Cheating prairie voles provide genetic clues to human adultery
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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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