Why are so many people right-handed? A new study suggests the answer may trace back to two major shifts in human evolution: walking upright and growing bigger brains. According to Sci.News, ...

A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence complex traits in humans at a scale previously impossible. The new method was ...

Matthew Robinson, Ilse Krätschmer and colleagues provide a new approach to analyze genetic data. For height, body weight, and school test performance, the environment shaped by our parents’ genes can ...

Supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are enabling scientists to uncover when—and how—critical human traits may have undergone transformative evolutionary shifts. Frontera (top), ...

Humans are closely related to chimpanzees and bonobos, but what are the key factors that make humans genetically different? A new study looks at the process of DNA methylation, in which chemical tags ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

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