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“Human adaptation is a polygenic process, usually with small effect sizes of individual genes,” says Bing Su, a professor at the Kunming Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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A human handprint preserved in the soft limestone at the 14,000-foot-high site of Chusang in central Tibet was left there more than 7,000 years ago. (Courtesy Mark Aldenderfer) ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, ... “It probably was not just one magical adaptation,” Dr. Manica said.

The CYP450 superfamily plays a key role in the metabolism of 90% of drugs currently in use. What role does ethnicity play in influencing the genetic variability of CYP450 enzymes?

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been asked to hear a challenge to the UK’s climate adaptation plans, which ...

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