Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Forensic genetic genealogy has named the woman, whose body was found on a cliff in 1966, as Dorothy Jean Williams. View on ...

For instance, in a 1971 essay on the history of nucleic acid research ... how the individual nucleotide components of DNA were arranged in space; discovery of the sugar-phosphate backbone of ...

Watson and Crick's discovery didn't come out of the blue. As early as 1943 Oswald Avery proved what had been suspected: that DNA, a nucleic acid, carries genetic information. But no one knew how ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

New research has shown that modern humans descend from not one but two separate ancient human ancestral lineages.

In the first of a two-part special, Adam Rutherford and UCL geneticist Lucy van Dorp explore the last 50-100 thousand years of human evolutionary history, visible in our DNA. Show more Our genomes ...

The substance discovered was named “nuclein,” which would later be called nucleic acid and eventually, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The discovery was made in 1869 by then twenty-four ... was ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals Homo sapiens descended from two ancestral groups, not one. This complex origin story ...

With the discovery of Mimivirus — the largest ... We all know that viruses have caused immeasurable suffering throughout human history. And when asked to describe a virus, most people probably ...

Archeologists in Denmark have made one of the most notable discoveries in recent history ... discovery," Museum Odense curator Michael Borre Lundø said to Newsweek. The museum is hoping to ...

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