Life
Origin of organs: Thank viruses for your skin and bone
Organs like muscle and skin require genes that slipped into our primordial ancestors' genomes when viruses infected them
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Life
Anti-gay Uganda claims sexual orientation is a choice
Opinion
Health
Testicular time bomb: Older dads’ mutant sperm
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Health
Empires and slave-trading left their mark on our genes
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Life
Ancient genome won’t heal rifts with Native Americans
Opinion
Humans
Ancestry of first Americans revealed by a boy’s genome
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Tribal healing: Anzick child genome changed my life
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Humans
‘There is no DNA test to prove you’re Native American’
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Life
Ouch! Pain threshold genes amplified by lifestyle
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Humans
Humanity’s forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA
Our species spread across the world from its African heartland about 60,000 years ago – but 3000 years ago, some humans went back to the homeland
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Health
Stem cell timeline: The history of a medical sensation
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Humans
Neanderthal-human sex bred light skins and infertility
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Black Death may have scuppered Roman Empire
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Ancient European hunter-gatherer was a blue-eyed boy
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