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Africa’s elephants are growing more isolated as their world shrinks

Africa’s largest elephant DNA study reveals growing genetic isolation as habitats shrink, raising urgent concerns for ...

New Elephant DNA Map Reveals Hidden Crisis Threatening Africa’s Giants

Conservationists have sounded the alarm for decades that habitat fragmentation is just as devastating to elephant populations ...
Greek Reporter

7,000-Year-Old DNA from Sahara Reveals Lost Human Lineage

Researchers deciphered ancient genomes from the Green Sahara, revealing an isolated North African human lineage.

Natural selection is accelerating, massive DNA study finds

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...
Harvard Medical School

Massive Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Recent Human Evolution

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
The Star on MSN

DNA study challenges Ameru Middle East origin myths

For generations, the Ameru people's oral traditions havetold a dramatic story. According to the narrative, their ancestors came fromfaraway lands, possibly the Middle East.They are said to have ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Humans Are Still Evolving. Natural Selection Has Favored Genes Linked to Red Hair and Less Male-Pattern Baldness, a Study Suggests

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Kidney disease is growing in Africa: big new study casts light on genetic risk factors

An important finding from the study concerns a gene called APOL1. Two variants of the APOL1 gene, known as G1 and G2, ...