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Ancient humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Why did we settle down and start farming?
After millions of years of our predecessors and us evolving as hunter-gatherers, humans abruptly stopped roaming, settled down and started ...
Neanderthals R Us: An exploration of ‘sensitive genetics’
The differences between us and our forebears always fired the imagination. New research shows that these ancient 'extinct' folks are ...
‘I like my carp well done please’: Human ancestors 780,000 years ago were catching and barbecuing fish
Heaps of fish teeth found at a waterlogged prehistoric site in today’s northern Israel have revealed an important new piece ...
Could CRISPR gene editing raise cancer risks?
It was a groundbreaking development a decade ago: CRISPR gene-editing technology that allows the snipping of DNA to remove undesired ...
Humans are mutts: New discoveries upend long-held views of evolution
Among human species, analysis of alternative types has been confined to Neanderthals and Denisovans, so far. And we have discovered ...
‘They are perfect’: Why cats have remained virtually unchanged through centuries of domestication
The biggest-ever genetic analysis of cats is in, and it’s official: they are cats. After two centuries of breeding, cats ...
How genetics made dogs man’s best friend
You love your dog. Your dog loves you. Your love is the upshot of thousands of years – perhaps tens ...
‘Our species began as a sort of arboreal rat when dinosaurs ruled the planet’: Early hominids spread around the world via a once-green Arabia
Our species began as a sort of arboreal rat when dinosaurs ruled the planet, and arguments abound over where the ...
Human evolution is accelerating. Here’s how — and why it’s necessary for us to adapt to an unstable world
For Prof. Ze’ev Hochberg of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, evolution ...
Humans are ‘super-predators’ hardwired by evolution to hunt our food sources into extinction
Humans are natural born killers: super-predators designed by evolution to subsist mainly on the meat and fat of large animals, ...
Mediterranean peoples share a common recent ancestry—except mainland Greeks
Genetic analysis proves that following thousands of years of conquests and migrations, peoples living around the Mediterranean today share common ...
Palestinians, Jews share common genetic lineage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Confronted by the violence ...
Are Jews a genetic ‘race’ or ‘population’? 12 examples of Jewish genetic distinctiveness
Jewish communities around the word share certain genetic traits with each other — some of which they also share with surrounding populations. These ...
Saving extinct and endangered species will benefit humans, too
The Sixth Extinction is upon us, and this time the depopulation of the planet is Man’s fault. But the upside ...
Israel warming to GMO crops as eco tech solution
Supplying food to a growing population without destroying the world’s ecological systems is one of humanity’s great challenges. Israel is ...
Israeli biotech company promises high yield crops without genetic modification
Kaiima Bio-Agritech, a Galilee-based enterprise that aims to boost global crop yields without the aid of genetic modification, says it ...
Israel Police skirt law, create migrant DNA database
The following is an excerpt. Police have been collecting for over a year now the DNA of African migrants who cross into ...
