For many people, discomfort during a medical injection or a long tattoo session feels especially intense. According to new ...
Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation's international symposium, "Antropology in the Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, Critique", which took place in June 1999, in Teresópolis, Brazil.
Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday. Researchers analyzed ancient genes to pinpoint the time period, which is ...
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Reflections on Conceptualizing Africa for ...
History often feels crowded with names, dates, and ancestors who seem to lead straight to us. So the idea that an entire group could vanish without leaving descendants feels unsettling. That feeling ...
On Cayo Santiago, a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico, demographic and genetic data have been collected on a population of rhesus macaques since 1956. Quantifying which individuals share ...
Maanasa Raghavan (left) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago (IL, USA). Using a combination of genomic datasets from ancient and present-day human ...
Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two ...