What heritability actually means
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‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests
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How embryo selection exploits our flawed intuitions about risk
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Those dire wolves aren’t an amazing scientific breakthrough. They’re a disturbing symbol of where we’re heading.
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RNA motifs coming into focus
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How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings
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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
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Book review: Eric Turkheimer's "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate"
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Turtle genomes fold in a special way
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No, intelligence is not like height
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You don't descend from all your ancestors
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Genomic prediction of IQ is modern snake oil
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High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil
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New candidate genes for human male infertility found by analyzing gorillas' unusual reproductive system
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The hazy evolution of cannabis
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Montana man, 80, pleads guilty to creating giant mutant hybrid bighorns
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The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health
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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
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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
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New amphibian family tree a leap forward in understanding frogs, shows they evolved tens of millions of years later than previously thought
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Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
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The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults
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Female California condors can reproduce without mating, joining a list that includes sharks, rays and lizards
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Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published
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The unique merger that made you (and ewe, and yew)
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Scales or feathers? It all comes down to a few genes
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Sucralose breaks up DNA
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Breakthrough as eggs made from male mice cells
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Scientists use CRISPR to insert an alligator gene into a catfish. Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
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Expanding the brain. Literally.
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Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
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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
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Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
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Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
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The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
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The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
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Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness
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To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics
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Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
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RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow fifty percent more potatoes, rice
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Scientists grew stem cell 'mini brains'. Then, the brains sort-of developed eyes
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These mutant blind rabbits walk on their front two legs, and now we know why
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Israeli scientists grow mouse embryos in a mechanical womb
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The pandemic that lasted fifteen million years
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Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows
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Nanotechnology for plant genetic engineering
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One couple’s tireless crusade to stop a genetic killer
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Metagenomic sequencing can quickly identify pathogens in body fluids, new study finds
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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
13 votes