Tag: David E. Reich

  • Nation & World

    Neanderthal genome tells a human story

    A preliminary draft of the genome of the Neanderthal, our closest evolutionary relative, reveals in exquisite detail how this long-extinct member of the Homo genus relates to modern humans.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Did ancestral humans, chimps interbreed?

    New scientific findings indicate that ancestral humans split from chimpanzee forebears more recently than previously thought and raise the possibility that the two nascent species hybridized before making their final separation.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Genome scanning technique spots disease risk

    A new technique, admixture mapping, takes advantage of the higher-risk genetic segments from one population that show up in the other through generations of racial mixing. The presence of higher-risk…

    1 minute