The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

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The new Health and Human Services director leads a movement prone to false beliefs on medical matters, from cell phones to ...

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

A small dinosaur that once dashed along North American riverbanks has found a new home in London. The new species, named ...

Federal prosecutors point to the aggravating factors of Payton Gendron's mass killing they say make him deserving of the death penalty. But his defense lawyers have asked a judge to strike them from ...

The Development of the American Economy (DAE) program was one of the first research programs launched by Martin Feldstein in ...

In a pre-peer-review draft of the paper released publicly last year, David Reich and his colleagues report that they found evidence for natural selection at 347 places on the genome—an order of ...

Natural selection isn’t the only factor driving evolution, ... Our DNA shows evidence for recent selection for resistance of killer diseases like Lassa fever and malaria.

Natural selection is an important evolutionary force that enables humans to adapt to new environments and fight disease-causing pathogens. However, the unique footprints of natural selection in ...