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 ...

Human healthy aging and longevity are complex phenomena influenced by a dynamic interplay of genetic, epigenetic, metabolic, ...

Population genetics is the study of the genetic composition of populations, including distributions and changes in genotype and phenotype frequency in response to the processes of natural ...

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 ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate.

It’s astonishing how much we’ve discovered about these languages that have gone unspoken and unheard for millennia. In the ...

The adult female bear charged the men, according to FWP. State officials didn't know if they were carrying bear spray.

United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a massive testing and research effort to identify the ...

Cancer took just about everyone in journalist Larry Ingrassia’s family, except him. His book unpacks his family’s ...

Experts recreate the 'Longest Route of Africa', which led to the earliest known human settlement in South America ...

As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their ...