LONDON — Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is the leading cause of death globally despite many advances in its diagnosis and management. Improving the understanding of the disease has ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

A new study places the origin of the Imazighen in the Epipaleolithic, more than twenty thousand years ago. The research concludes that the genetic origin of the current Arab population of north Africa ...

Scientists used small solar tags to identify where long-billed curlews migrate, revealing hidden populations of North America’s largest shorebird. Andy Boyce, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through interbreeding about 300,000 years ago. The genetic mixture is approximately 80% from one ...