In the temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere, a quiet but powerful story has been unfolding for nearly 60 million years. It’s a story written in the DNA of a fruit so familiar that its history ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

(CN) — A research paper released Monday in Nature Genetics mapped the genome and considered the possible origins of the world’s most widely consumed species of coffee: Coffea arabica. The team of ...

Genetics research has been fundamental in our understanding of human history, including this shocking twist in the story of human evolution. For decades now, scientists have pieced together the story ...

Though we all share common ancestors ranging from a few generations to hundreds of thousands of years, genealogies that relate all of us are often forgotten over time. A new McGill University-led ...

A new study has investigated the genetic history of roses, which are part of the genus Rosa and a member of the Rosaceae family, regardless of what color they are. Researchers analyzed the genomes of ...

A pioneering study is unveiling the genetic history of the Classic Maya civilization, providing fresh perspectives on their origins, population movements, and the extraordinary rise and eventual ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Jennifer Raff’s Origin. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, read an excerpt, sign up for our email ...

Ancient Egyptians and their modern counterparts share less in common than you might think. That is, at least genetically, a team of scientists have found. Researchers from the University of Tuebingen ...

In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray ...