In natural populations, the mechanisms of evolution do not act in isolation. This is crucially important to conservation geneticists, who grapple with the implications of these evolutionary processes ...

Variants of APOE gene, that control brain waste clearance are linked to 90% of Alzheimer’s cases. Targeting its protein can ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution unveils a fascinating aspect of human prehistory, showing that ancient populations in Papua New Guinea were remarkably isolated from each ...

The Y chromosome is unlike other chromosomes in the human genome. It does not regularly recombine with a matching partner, making it genetically isolated. Over evolutionary time, this isolation has ...