The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis predicts associations between life history and 'risky' behaviours. Individuals with 'fast' lifestyles should develop faster, reproduce earlier, exhibit more ...

This is a historical reflection on the scientific and personal context leading up to and including the publication of R.A. Fisher’s paper “The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People with a family history of genetic disease are often discriminated against by insurance companies and their relatives and friends, according to research published on bmj.com today. Advances in ...

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 ...