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An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

The first known fossils of human ancestors, those of Neanderthals, were unearthed in the early 19th century, and decades passed before naturalists understood what they were looking at.