Scientists Tracing DNA Find Tribes Not So Trusting
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At issue is whether scientists using DNA from aboriginal populations are underselling the risks to donors.
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Study exposes emerging tribes of social network sites
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There&#39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago.
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WASHINGTON - For less than $200 and a cheek-swiped cotton swab, amateur historians will soon be able to add DNA results to family tree Web sites.
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Forensics experts were poring over fingerprints and dental records to identify victims from the Asian tsunami, hoping to get the easier matches out of the way before tackling the time-consuming process of DNA analysis.
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Hoping to solve and prevent more crimes, the federal government and a growing number of states are casting the DNA net wider by taking genetic samples from people accused but not convicted of breaking the law.
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Some Neanderthals probably had red hair much like modern-day humans, a DNA study shows.
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A rapid technique for isolating DNA in hair provides a new route to study the genetics of extinct creatures.
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A study of an ancient human pest - head lice â-uggests that the ancestors of today&#39;s American Indians may have met and fought with pre-humans long extinct elsewhere, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Despite advances in DNA analysis, the nature of the Indian Ocean disaster may prevent investigators from reuniting thousands of victims with their identities. By Randy Dotinga.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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Archeologists are at odds over the discovery of the skeleton of a dwarf-sized human species on the remote island of Flores, which is said could rewrite the history of human evolution.
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Attacking several tons of woolly mammoth with stone-tipped spears must have taken extraordinary courage &#151; and ancient people left paintings to prove they did it. Now, scientists are approaching mammoths in a different way, extracting DNA from their dense coats in an effort to learn more about them.
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DNA analysis of bison fossils suggests climate and environmental change, not human hunters, triggered herd declines and the extinction of mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and other large mammals in Siberia and North America.
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Â· Ancestors learned to walk in trees, says UK teamÂ· Researchers base claims on watching orang-utans
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A now-extinct tribe could have been the first settlers of the Americas, a university researcher told a science conference in Britain.
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The Karitiana Indians, an isolated tribe in the Amazon, have discovered that blood they gave researchers who promised but did not deliver medicine, is for sale online.