As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race. When scientists ...

An executive order critiques the idea that race is a human invention. But that's exactly what modern science supports.

Explore the impact of geography, history, and evolutionary factors on human genetic variation and whether race makes a good proxy for ancestry when describing human groups. Explore whether genetics or ...

Deep within the cells of mice, a genetic arms race is unfolding between X and Y chromosome genes, battling for dominance in sperm. Researchers have now discovered how these gene families compete by ...

Thus, ethnicity and race are tied to both our genetics and our environment. This complexity makes it much more difficult for researchers to identify the specific connections between ...

There is no justification, however, to use race as a substitute for other parameters that can be measured, such as genetic variation or differences in metabolism. Increasing mobility and admixture ...

As part of The Clinical Advisor’s 20th Anniversary, this article explores the influence of race and genetics in clinical practice.

Bradburd's work is answering a call from the National Academy of Sciences, urging researchers working on human population genetics to move away from race-based labels. While the sociological ...

This competition, or arms race, is typically hard to observe–except ... Ph.D., associate research scientist in the Department of Human Genetics "If there were genes conferring benefits to ...