Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s views of modern medical genetics have to be evaluated independently of her radical, revisionist history of eugenics (“Medical Genetics Is Not Eugenics,” The Chronicle Review, May ...

Palaeoarchaeologists, human geographers, and other scientists have sought to understand the evolution of humans, their cultures, and histories. In recent years, advances in genetic technologies have ...

The Iceman's hand is pictured. Credit: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/EURAC/M.Lafogler A study was published last week on the DNA of Helicobacter pylori, the ...

(CN) — A founder event — the formation of a new population from a small number of ancestral individuals — can be set off by a dramatic reduction of the original group or migration. These events ...

Archeological digs have told us a lot about human history, but genetic tools have been able to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge, and offer different perspectives on some findings. Researchers ...

Paleogeneticists have taken a sweeping look at 297 ancient genomes from Scandinavia and compared them with genetic data from 16,500 living Scandinavians to better understand the genetic history of the ...