That genetic traces of the original population disappear completely is unusual, especially in South America,” said geneticist ...

It was previously assumed that human evolution followed a straight-line path, whereby separate populations evolved to branch out ... with another population, genetic evidence would have been ...

Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability ...

People coming from the north settled South America. The first hunter-gatherers entered the continent from the region of what ...

but that parts of it would occasionally branch off and then later merge back together, we get a much better match with the genetic variation found in human populations today,” says population ...

These new findings could shed light on a mysterious extinct branch of humanity known ... linked to ancient mystery population in Tibet, DNA study finds Genetic analysis suggests the ancestors ...

By comparing genetic ... the population rebounded. Dr. Hu and his colleagues argue in their paper that this bottleneck is consistent with the fossil record of our human ancestors. Our branch ...

Their work will become a foundation of the science of population genetics.

Now that the team has confirmed that different genes are responsible for skin tones in each migration branch ... genetics. "With this confirmation, we knew that we could use data from this ...

Humankind struggled to survive during a 100,000 year period during the early Pleistocene, according to researchers who used a computer model to discover a severe population bottleneck in our ...

From the beginning of genetics and genomics research, researchers have used “population descriptors” as a shorthand for capturing the complex patterns of human genetic variation across the globe. For ...