Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Jennifer Raff’s Origin. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, read an excerpt, sign up for our email ...

Behavioral genetics is a field of scientific research that examines genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in behavior. Behavioral genetics aims to answer the fundamental ...

In 2003, the Human Genome Project became the culmination of the history of genetics research, allowing us to understand the role of genetics in human health and disease. As part of The Clinical ...

Scientists agree that humanity originated in Africa, but we still have a lot to learn about how populations moved and diverged across the continent. It's been suggested that our origins can be ...

Scientists have determined that humans probably started practicing agriculture around 10,000 to 9,000 BCE in the Near East, and farming moved into Europe by about 6,000 BCE. The study of this ancient ...

The historical context of modern human behaviour genetics and of this course itself is briefly described focussed on three core issues (i) how big do twin studies need to be, (ii) what is the effect ...

Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists ...

In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray ...