A recent discovery has revealed surprising clues about the Neanderthals who lived in France. An ancient Neanderthal lineage, ...

Another factor recently debated on these pages is the merit of homogeneous versus heterogeneous populations. Many biological measures of diversity have been applied to identify suitable ...

In Revenge of the Tipping Point, Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell asks this very question, developing and challenging his ...

In the absence of natural selection and genetic drift, gene flow leads to genetic homogeneity among demes within a metapopulation, such that, for a given locus, allele frequencies will reach ...

Several misconceptions exist surrounding Indian ethnogenesis and ancestry, including a strict difference between South and ...

Tarazona-Santos, who himself has Indigenous ancestry, is worried about the dearth of data. Certain genes, his team has found, ...

His portrayal of Jews as the archetypal successful minority feeds into the very antisemitic tropes he claims to combat.

The results were published in Nature Genetics. Anxiety disorders and symptoms affect many individuals with a negative impact on people's quality of life. Understanding their genetic predisposition ...

A new analysis of genetic material gathered from a live-animal market in Wuhan in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic strengthens the case that the outbreak originated there when the ...

Researchers analyzed genetic material gathered from the Chinese market where the first outbreak was detected and found that the most likely animals were racoon dogs, civet cats and bamboo rats.

A three-year long molecular biology research spanning across Sri Lanka and India have established that the population in the island nation is homogeneous in nature and there is no scientific basis ...

Medical researchers conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study of all-cause dementia, finding substantial genetic overlap with vascular dementia. In landmark research, scientists at ...