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PHILADELPHIA — In an unprecedented feat of forensic anthropology, European researchers extracted enough DNA from two Neanderthal skulls to suggest their owners sported red hair and white skin back ...

The Neanderthal Connection Every person alive today carries traces of Neanderthal DNA, typically around 2% of their genome. This genetic legacy comes from interbreeding events between Homo sapiens and ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

In the recent study on pain, researchers investigated three variations in the SCN9A gene, and reported greater pain ...

India’s complex ancestry—intertwined with Iranian farmers, Steppe herders, and local hunter-gatherers—has now been decoded through genomic data from 2,762 people. The study uncovers surprising levels ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

From the sound of traffic to spending too much time on your smartphone, there are plenty of things in the modern world that can give you a headache. But scientists now say that some people's pounding ...

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