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A form of glioma, a type of brain cancer, tends to progress toward greater malignancy due to an increasing tendency of glioma ...

A new study suggests that a rare genetic trait may have helped some people survive better over thousands of years.

A sweeping new genetic study has added a fascinating twist to the story of how humans first settled the Americas. By ...

Using the theory of memes to explore the success of calorie recommendations and the features of culture, cognition, behaviour ...

Caddisflies are among nature's master underwater builders, capable of spinning sticky silk that they use to form protective ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were ...

As genome editing therapies move through clinical trials to regulatory approval, scientists continue the quest for the holy ...

A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.