My post The Genetic Map of Europe drew a lot of interest, but there's even a cooler paper on the same topic out, Genes mirror geography within Europe: ...Despite low average levels of genetic ...

The figure above comes from the an article in The New York Times, The Genetic Map of Europe, which draws from a new paper, Correlation between Genetic and Geographic Structure in Europe. The authors ...

A Gene Map of Europe Researchers create a picture of Europe by mapping genetic variation among Europeans.

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

World-wide Genetic Map Project Date: January 19, 2004 Source: University Of Oxford Summary: An international project to map common patterns of genetic variation in humans has been launched, and ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

The gene map of a prehistoric Spaniard reveals that early European hunter-gatherers had blue eyes and dark skin, a new study says.

A CHART of the genetic differences between human beings has been drawn up for the first time, promising breakthroughs in the hunt for the genes influencing common diseases such as cancer, asthma ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether ...