Her mother was Alaska Native of the Ahtna Athabascan people. She had been named for an aunt who died in a boarding school for ...
"This was one of our oldest unidentified cases. And I think it just goes to show you that no matter how long somebody persists in being unidentified, we won't give up trying to identify them," the ...
Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...
Marion McWhorter went missing in Oregon in 1974. Now, remains found two years later have been identified as her, through DNA ...
Remains found in 1976 have been identified as Marion McWhorter, who went missing two years before when she turned 21 years old, Oregon State Police said.
The fish that limbed vertebrates evolved from don't have obvious digit equivalents, and the most common types of fish just ...
CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — is a method of genetic editing that uses RNA ...
Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...
The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study ...
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...