I married a tall woman out of love, partly from genetic ambition. I figured we’d gift our kids a vertical advantage. It turns ...

Height is one of the most evident sex-based differences observed in humans, as men are on an average 13 cm (5 inches) taller ...

Scientists at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan explained in a paper published last week that orange cats are missing a ...

Scientists at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan explained in a paper published last week that orange cats are missing a ...

“During male spermatogenesis, X and Y chromosomes perform their typical recombination ... didn’t teach me about this level of diversity in God’s creation. It was all Adam and Eve, and avoiding the age ...

The story documents how Adam and Eve were made from dust ... Initially, science found ancestors who passed on the male Y chromosomes and female mitochondrial DNA lived tens of thousands of years apart ...

Let us understand the difference between the X and Y chromosomes of humans here. Also, know what might happen to the Y chromosome in the future, which is thousands of years away. The length of ...

A study estimates that Mitochondrial Eve existed between 100,000 and 230,000 years ago, whereas Y-chromosomal Adam predates Eve by approximately 75,000 years. Common mitochondrial ancestors of ...

on which we collaborated with Adam Phillippy’s group at the NHGRI, this allowed us to completely resolve repetitive regions that were previously difficult to sequence and assemble. By comparing the X ...