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DNA from the ‘last Neanderthal’ rewrites our origin story

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of ...
The New York Times

The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...
The New York Times

Mysterious Ancient Humans Now Have a Face

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque. By Carl Zimmer When Qiaomei Fu discovered a new ...
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Scientists Just Discovered A Previously-Unknown Indigenous Population That Lived In Isolation In Argentina For 8,500 Years

Researchers have discovered a mysterious and previously-unknown population that flourished in present-day Argentina for ...
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James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died at age 97

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...