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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Genes identified that extend life
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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?
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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 ...
You owe your life to viruses
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hundreds of millions of ...
Behavioral genetics holds answers to heritability of intelligence, and what makes us unique
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Behavioral genetics, the study ...
Nature and nurture both shape brain in their own way
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Twins have long been ...
‘Johnny Depp effect’: Why women sometimes prefer feminine-looking men?
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23andMe ‘spit kit’ tests may soon be available at Walgreens
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetic information company 23andMe ...
Genes responsible for frizzy hair, unibrows identified
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Great grandmothers’ drinking habits responsible for alcoholism? Not so fast
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Is colon cancer a product of western diet, modern life? Hungarian mummy may have answers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The modern plagues of ...
Oldest, most detailed fossilized nervous system discovered
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers have found one ...
Not just bacteria: Viruses use CRISPR in nature, too
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With all the buzz ...
Is musical talent in your genes?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Creativity is a hard ...
Human likely evolved smaller teeth due to tool use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Wisdom teeth may have ...
‘Brave New World’ of human genetic modification already happening
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Paul Knoepfler is not ...
Sex not as simple as X and Y
Everybody assumed that the Y chromosome's sole purpose was to rigidly assign male sex. The truth is much more complicated ...
Beyond gene editing: How will CRISPR impact future of scientific discovery?
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Genome sequencing reveals aboriginal Australians’ 50,000-year history
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The first complete sequences ...
Homosexuality unnatural? Other animal species say otherwise
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Do opposites attract? Not when it comes to psychiatric disorders
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Why do we love to shame others? Evolution holds answer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A communications director sends ...
Tom Wolfe 20 years later: What neuroscience predictions came true?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Twenty years ago, Tom ...
