That sums up the deep secrets that have come to light in new research into human evolution, which have turned our ...

A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought ...

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

Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations ... most of the variation in genetic polymorphisms is related to differences among individuals within populations—some 85% ...

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 ...

A variant of genetic code—which may be a single position or thousands—that differs between individuals is called an allele. In general, human populations share most of the same genetic ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.

a catalog of common human genetic variation that was completed in 2015. The team is in the process of recruiting new individuals to represent some populations not included in the 1000 Genomes ...

"With these images, it is tempting to assume modern populations are no longer ... Stock image: An illustration of human DNA. From a genetic perspective, evolution is defined as a change in the ...

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 ...