Ancestry & Evolution
Does germline gene editing cross evolutionary lines?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. George Church, professor of ...
Genes trump parenting in shaping who we are
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I want you to ...
Answers to why we age may lie in genes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Driven by the quest ...
Do you have the brain of an entrepreneur?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As Ingrid Vandervelt, CEO ...
Genes offer clues to why grandparents remain mentally alert
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Evolutionarily speaking, we are ...
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: ...
Why elephants almost never get cancer–and why that might save human lives
Why don’t elephants die of cancer nearly as often as humans, even though they have about 100 times as many ...
Early farmers brought light skin, height to northern Europeans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When agriculture arrived in ...
Which of our 25,000 genes matter most?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Humans have between 20,000 ...
Spread of farming in Europe shaped early human ancestry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A study of ancient ...
Knowing your biology may help you argue more effectively
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Evidence continues to mount ...
Infographic: Innovation in corn crops to feed hungry world
For decades, U.S. corn yields languished at about 20-30 bushels per acre. But over time, regular investment in scientific research ...
With rise of agriculture came big changes in European genome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The agricultural revolution was ...
What made Einstein’s brain so special?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Albert Einstein died ...
MRI of mother and child captures biggest questions in neuroscience
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A mother and her ...
What contributions did ancient Denisovans make to modern human gene pool?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A mysterious extinct branch ...
Does DNA really make you who you are?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The ad for Ancestry.com's ...
Can insects be genetically engineered as bioweapons?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Gene drives” have enormous ...
Early eugenics movement first introduced biology to politics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For centuries, human hereditary ...
Ancient tooth’s DNA adds Denisovians to human family tree
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. DNA extracted from a ...
Are religious convictions heritable?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Religiosity is moderately heritable—25 ...
“Hybridization is not genetic modification” — And other scientifically suspect anti-GMO sayings
Life forms have been genetically modified, for billions of years by nature, and then for the last 11,000 years, in ...
Are perceptions of human beauty grounded in culture or genes?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Karl Grammer, professor of ...
Why blacks sleep less: Race or racism?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African Americans sleep on ...
Will genome editing disrupt species evolution?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There are four locked ...
Changing climate may have pushed early human evolution in Africa
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's been called the ...
Discoverers of ancient human Homo naledi fossils accused of rushing analysis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It remains one of ...