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Chimpanzees in Uganda have been eating virus-filled bat dung ever since their preferred food source was destroyed by tobacco farmers. Scientists fear this could be how the next major pandemic starts.
The molecules that cover our cells have interacted over the ages with our environment and the diseases that plague us – and in the process shaped our progress
For the first time, geneticists have completely sequenced the Y chromosome, the last to be fully mapped in the human genome.
For the first time, geneticists have completely sequenced the Y chromosome, the last to be fully mapped in the human genome.
Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal the year’s most riveting findings about our close relatives and ancestors