Like most people, Jovany Galarza has limited knowledge of his family’s history. While he’s aware of his more recent Mexican and Puerto Rican roots, it’s the 59,900 years before that he’s less sure of.

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More than 150 years ago, Darwin proposed the theory of universal common ancestry, linking all forms of life by a shared genetic heritage from single-celled microorganisms to humans. Until now, the ...

A team of European researchers has shed new light on the genetic origins of Papua New Guineans. The team uses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools to demonstrate that Papua New Guineans are ...

Rutgers researchers have discovered that the chlamydia bacterium, which causes a sexually transmitted disease (STD), shares an evolutionary heritage with plants. That shared evolutionary heritage, ...

After years of exchanging e-mails and long-distance phone calls, Norman J. Landerman-Moore and Ann Moore Black met face-to-face for the Western Region African American Conference held at the Bellevue ...

For years, medicine has relied on self-reported race/ethnicity as the basis of an array of decisions, from risk for disease to matching organ donors. Now, a study led by researchers at UC San ...

When Charles Darwin encountered native peoples of South America during his famous trip around the world on the HMS Beagle, he saw them as people – literally (see Eldredge, 2010). You see, other ...