By Gregory Snyder Since the completion of the Human Genome Project less than a decade ago, the cost of sequencing genomes has decreased more than…
Economy recapitulates demography? (image source) Iranians count their rials in superunits of the toman, from a Mongol word for ten thousand soldiers. Remarkably, such a…
Three new papers spotlight a glut of rare variants in our genomes, with key insights for human history and health.
The plot thickens. The crab […] only runs backwards. – Arsenio Rodríguez, Cangrejo Fue a Estudiar In time, finer data and statistical models will test…
Twins have sometimes no resemblance to each other. – Aristotle, The History of Animals A much-discussed new paper from Nicholas Roberts, Bert Vogelstein, and colleagues…