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It has also become a big driver in the number of older single mothers in the U.S. at a time when the country's overall birth ...

Some modern humans carry Neanderthal gene variants that affect how their bodies metabolize common medications. This explains recent genetic research linking ancient interbreeding to slower drug ...

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A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...