Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

Carrie Buck was raped, labeled an “imbecile,” and sterilized by order of the state—all in the name of genetic progress. That ...

The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation. So when those niches got filled, something drove even more species to emerge. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary ...

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Background Depression has been consistently linked to the onset of dementia, but the temporality and nature of this ...

Antonovics, J. 1966. The genetics and evolution of differences between closely adjacent plant populations with special reference to heavy metal tolerance. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wales.

The Global IBD Visualization of Epidemiology Studies in the 21st Century (GIVES‑21) consortium, led by Professor Gilaad Kaplan of University of Calgary and Professor Siew Ng of CU Medicine, ...

Using these data, the team developed a machine learning algorithm and predictive modeling to classify countries into four distinct epidemiological stages of IBD evolution: emergence, acceleration ...

New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — alongside human-made pollutants contaminating the deep sea.

The sequencing results will be made freely available so that other researchers can use the data in their own studies, opening the door to further insights into human evolution and genetic disease.