genes
17/01/2020 - 14:14
Those who called the phone number that appeared for an appointment discovered that the company was fictional and that they had been taken... →
12/11/2018 - 12:44
The hyper-secretive research venture has released few details about what it actually does inside its Silicon Valley lab, but there have... →
25/03/2018 - 12:17
Classical genetics draws a fundamental distinction between the “genotype” (that is, the set of genes that an individual carries and can... →
14/08/2016 - 13:19
Darwin was a diligent thinker. He agonised over any example he came across of organisms behaving in a way that seemed to run counter to his... →
01/10/2015 - 17:13
According to many estimates, these whales live at least 150 years, and perhaps as long as 210. Apart from slightly leathery skin, a bit of... →
18/08/2015 - 19:36
Among the biggest surprises contained within the genome—eliciting exclamation point–ridden e-mails from cephalopod researchers—is that... →
29/05/2015 - 15:40
Does a body good
Questions such as these inspired Komlos back in the 1980s as he pioneered the field of anthropometric history. It explores... →
23/05/2014 - 12:27
People also tend to marry those similar to themselves in terms of race, ethnicity and even body size and shape. Genes may also shape even... →
16/09/2013 - 12:43
In previous studies, the researchers observed that patients with dyslexia exhibited a correlation between the gene PCSK6 and handedness.... →
04/11/2012 - 14:22
Evolutionary anthropologist Oskar Burger and his team wanted to study human longevity in an evolutionary context. So they turned to... →