Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some ...

In many aspects of our lives, we find meaning in the order in which events occur. We buy into myths about "middle child ...

New whole-genome sequencing data reveals how strongly DNA shapes everyday traits, closing the long-standing gap in ...

Neanderthals were genetically predisposed to be early birds, and they may have passed on those genes to some humans living today, new research found. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes If you’re ...

Researchers from the University of Queensland and Illumina analyzed DNA from 347,630 UK Biobank participants to determine how ...

Humans carry genes that predispose us to atherosclerosis, the disease that causes heart attacks, because those same genes may have once helped our ancestors survive and reproduce. That's the ...

Researchers studying DNA from 131,895 individuals frequently observed two genes — CADM2 and GRM3 — related to patterns of ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

Hooray for the Morapians! I have no idea who they are, but they’ve helped make the effect of genes on politics much clearer. I just read an article that I really like for that very reason. The ...

Groundbreaking research has uncovered a set of just three gene variants that can increase the likelihood of attention-deficit ...