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J. Michael Bishop, a microbiologist who shared a Nobel Prize in 1989 for research that illuminated the genetic roots of ...

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

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A small fragment of bone, tucked away in a museum drawer for decades, has quietly shifted what is known about the long relationship between humans and.

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