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Category Archives: humans
What do we know about the genetics of “born this way?” — and how does it help us to know it?
Not quite five years ago, a collaboration led by researchers at the Broad Institute published what seemed like the last word in “born this way”: a genomic study of same-sex sexual behavior in a cohort of almost half a million … Continue reading
A paleogenomic peek into the human history of the Americas — and all its complications
The following is a guest post from Ellen Quinlan, a PhD Candidate in Biology at Wake Forest University. Ellen’s dissertation work studies the ecology and population genomics of altitudinal range limits in Andean trees. The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission … Continue reading