For the first time, an international study has deciphered the genome of the population of Brazil. Published in the journal ...

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.

An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration.

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 ...

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

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 ...

You might think you know which animals and plants are considered "domesticated" or “domestic” and which ones aren't—but a new ...

A large-scale genomic study of over 1,500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and the Americas sheds new light on the ancient migrations that shaped the ...