Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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It has long been known that there is a complex interplay between genetic factors and environmental influences in shaping behavior. Recently it has been found that genes governing behavior in the brain ...

The core formula of a new study in Science that suggests our ancestors may have survived a bottleneck 900,000 years ago Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

New research has revealed an incredible discovery: modern humans carry 20% of their genetic material from a mysterious population that split from our ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This study ...

Françoise Baylis is affiliated with the International Science Council, the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) and the Royal Society of Canada. Update ...

A study has revealed a significant genetic risk factor for kidney disease in people from Ghana and Nigeria. Their study demonstrated that having just one risk variant in a gene known as APOL1 can ...