As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines ...

The team's method relied on analyzing modern human DNA, rather than extracting genetic material from ancient bones, and ...

Most human genetic studies have been conducted in European populations, and the results often do not transfer well to other populations. This gap in research, particularly on the genetic basis of ...

Thinking about population genetics often brings to mind visions of animals in the wild being swept along by the tide of natural catastrophes, soil depletion, or predation. However, over the past ...