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Neanderthals Were People, Too By JON MOOALLEM New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong? Neanderthals are people, too — a separate, shorn-off branch of our family tree...

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During the Family Tree DNA Conference, Dr. Miguel Vilar, the Scientific Data Manager for the Explorer Programs was kind enough to give us an update on the Genographic project.  One of the things that he mentioned was that no overarching paper had...

Prior to the Holocaust, it was common for Jews to refer to themselves as a race. But with the Holocaust and the rise of Boasian anthropology, that has gone out of fashion, and educated Jews tend to take exception to any categorization of Jews as a race...

On April 24, 2003, shortly after the completion of the human genome project, its director Francis Collins and his team posed 15 grand challenges to the scientific community. They dared researchers to harness the genome to crack puzzles of biology, health...