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15 votes
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Sociogenomics, a new scientific field is changing the understanding of how and why people develop the specific ways that they do
13 votes -
Book review: Eric Turkheimer's "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate"
10 votes -
Turtle genomes fold in a special way
6 votes -
No, intelligence is not like height
31 votes -
You don't descend from all your ancestors
21 votes -
Genomic prediction of IQ is modern snake oil
11 votes -
High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil
14 votes -
New candidate genes for human male infertility found by analyzing gorillas' unusual reproductive system
7 votes -
The hazy evolution of cannabis
3 votes -
Montana man, 80, pleads guilty to creating giant mutant hybrid bighorns
35 votes -
The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health
16 votes -
Long presumed to have no heads at all, sea stars may be nothing but
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Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in extracting and sequencing RNA molecules from an extinct species, a century old Tasmanian tiger known as a thylacine
16 votes -
Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
51 votes -
New amphibian family tree a leap forward in understanding frogs, shows they evolved tens of millions of years later than previously thought
10 votes -
Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
19 votes -
The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults
27 votes -
Female California condors can reproduce without mating, joining a list that includes sharks, rays and lizards
19 votes -
Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published
29 votes -
The unique merger that made you (and ewe, and yew)
10 votes -
Scales or feathers? It all comes down to a few genes
8 votes -
Sucralose breaks up DNA
11 votes -
Breakthrough as eggs made from male mice cells
7 votes -
Scientists use CRISPR to insert an alligator gene into a catfish. Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
8 votes -
Expanding the brain. Literally.
3 votes -
Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
5 votes -
Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
4 votes -
Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
5 votes -
Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
12 votes -
The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
8 votes -
The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
10 votes -
Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness
4 votes -
To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics
4 votes -
Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
15 votes -
RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow fifty percent more potatoes, rice
18 votes -
Scientists grew stem cell 'mini brains'. Then, the brains sort-of developed eyes
12 votes -
These mutant blind rabbits walk on their front two legs, and now we know why
14 votes -
Israeli scientists grow mouse embryos in a mechanical womb
5 votes -
The pandemic that lasted fifteen million years
4 votes -
Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows
8 votes -
Nanotechnology for plant genetic engineering
6 votes -
One couple’s tireless crusade to stop a genetic killer
7 votes -
Metagenomic sequencing can quickly identify pathogens in body fluids, new study finds
3 votes -
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
13 votes -
Color blindness
6 votes -
The human genome is full of viruses
8 votes -
Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
5 votes -
How Europeans evolved white skin
7 votes -
Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs
4 votes