A new international research consortium that aims to sequence the genomes of at least 1,000 people has just been set up. The project is expected to cost between $30 million and $50 million ...

Learn about the new proposal for the origins of modern humans, suggesting that our species is a genetic combination of two ...

Scientists have uncovered a “hidden chapter” in the history of human evolution and it turns out it’s much more complex than previously thought. It’s known that modern day humans, known scientifically ...

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

"The 1000 genomes project is the backbone of our understanding for human variation,” said Ewan Birney from the European Bioinformatics Institute, who is not part of the consortium. “Both the data and ...

When the 1,000 Genomes Project launched the following year, in 2008, the aim was to sequence the genomes of 2,500 people. By 2010, sequencing systems offered higher throughput capabilities that ...