Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

The Basques are a unique population in Western Europe; their language is not related to any Indo-European language. Furthermore, genetically speaking, they have been considered to have distinct ...

Behavioral genetics is a field of scientific research that examines genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in behavior. Behavioral genetics aims to answer the fundamental ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of ...

In 2003, the Human Genome Project became the culmination of the history of genetics research, allowing us to understand the role of genetics in human health and disease. As part of The Clinical ...

Scientists have determined that humans probably started practicing agriculture around 10,000 to 9,000 BCE in the Near East, and farming moved into Europe by about 6,000 BCE. The study of this ancient ...

Sleep homoeostasis refers to a process in which the propensity to sleep increases as wakefulness progresses and decreases as sleep progresses. Sleep is tightly organized around the circadian clock and ...