LONDON — Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is the leading cause of death globally despite many advances in its diagnosis and management. Improving the understanding of the disease has ...
Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...
A study led by the IBE and the UPF Institute of Evolutionary Biology confirms that the Arab and Imazighen populations of north Africa have different genetic origins Made up of Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, ...
A new study places the origin of the Imazighen in the Epipaleolithic, more than twenty thousand years ago. The research concludes that the genetic origin of the current Arab population of north Africa ...
The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...
Scientists used small solar tags to identify where long-billed curlews migrate, revealing hidden populations of North America’s largest shorebird. Andy Boyce, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...
Much of the controversy about the forensic use of DNA has involved population genetics. In this chapter, we first explain the principles that are generally applicable. We then consider the special ...