A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence complex traits in humans at a scale previously impossible. The new method was ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Rare genetic traits are features that are uncommon within the general population. They can lead to different observable features or to rare physical abilities. Rare genetic traits are typically ...

A wave of new genetic research is transforming our understanding of human evolution, revealing that Homo sapiens likely arose from multiple interconnected populations in Africa rather than a single ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has shaped modern human genomes far more than previously thought.

Your genes code for all your traits. Some genes are dominant and expressed if you receive a copy from one parent. Others are recessive and only apparent if you receive a copy from both parents. Genes ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.