Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Human populations have waxed and waned over the millennia, with some cultures exploding and migrating to new areas or new continents, others dropping to such low numbers that their genetic diversity ...

In this study, the team used a new method called fast infinitesimal time coalescent process (FitCoal), as a way to determine ancient demographic inferences with modern-day human genomic sequences from ...

Founder events, or population bottlenecks in which the genetic information of small groups of individuals become a large part of the total population, were found to be common throughout human history, ...

Bacterial persistence is a potential cause of antibiotic therapy failure. Antibiotic-tolerant persisters originate from phenotypic differentiation within a susceptible population, occurring with a ...

How a new method of inferring ancient population size revealed a severe bottleneck in the human population which almost wiped out the chance for humanity as we know it today. An unexplained gap in the ...

A new method of inferring ancient population size uncovers a potential bottleneck that may have almost eliminated the chance for continued humanity. The researchers believe that our Pleistocene ...

(CNN) — Ancient humanity was almost wiped out about 900,000 years ago when the global population dwindled to around 1,280 reproducing individuals, according to a new study. What’s more, the population ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A founder event impacts the genetic diversity of a population. In this graphic, individuals in a population have genomes containing various genomic segments (colored bars at top) that are inherited ...