The gene that causes lighter skin pigmentation, SLC24A5, was introduced from eastern African to southern African populations just 2,000 years ago. Strong positive selection caused this gene to rise in ...

Scientists have identified a gene that appears to have evolved rapidly in people and contributed to the emergence of the uniquely human brain. Rather than coding for a protein, as about half of known ...

A gene newly associated with the migratory patterns of golden-winged and blue-winged warblers could lend insight into the longstanding question of how birds migrate across such long distances. A gene ...

A new analysis of lice genetic diversity suggests that lice came to the Americas twice – once during the first wave of human migration across the Bering Strait, and again during European colonization.

In two studies, researchers demonstrate how climate modeling approaches can fill gaps in our understanding of hominin evolution and migration. Over the last several decades, research efforts into the ...

The process of migration of people from Siberia to South America involved an history of large climate changes and likely many population bottlenecks. Those factors are more important than time in ...

It is not that base and prime editing—groundbreaking technologies developed in the Liu lab from 2016–19—are old news. Liu did devote a few slides to summarizing the clinical progress of both platforms ...

Merlin Crossley works for UNSW and receives funding from the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council, and serves on the Trust of the Australian Museum, the ...