We don’t know where they came from. We don’t know where they went. The unique DNA of an ancient tribe of hunter-gatherers is adding to the confusion surrounding the source of South America’s first ...

A legal scholar with a Ph.D. in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals that ...

A large government study published Thursday shows more definitively than ever before that Americans’ self-reported race is a ...

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Scientists were able to determine the biological sex of the Paranthropus robustus specimens by analyzing specific protein ...

On the calm waters of Lagoon Valley Park’s pond, Mathias Langlotz paddles his canoe beneath the California sun — sometimes ...

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

This manuscript introduces a useful protein-stability-based fitness model for simulating protein evolution and unifying non-neutral models of molecular evolution with phylogenetic models. The model is ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

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 ...

Using population genetic approaches, we can compare the observed distribution ... This is further supported from the two samples showing relatively short branch lengths in the population phylogeny ...