Haaretz
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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 ...
