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Ancient DNA shows that human evolution never slowed down — it sped up after farming
Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.
The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...
Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...
The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...
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Large DNA study reveals natural selection led to more redheads and less male-pattern baldness
Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...
The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...
Professor Indraneel Mittra and his team show that DNA fragments from dying cells function as agents of horizontal gene transfer in mammalian cells. For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can ...
A new platform for studying mtDNA mutations implicated in human disease could help accelerate treatments for mitochondrial ...
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