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Let me call it the GI-world . Humanity is leaving an era in which the letters “G.I.” generally evoked soldiers of the United States Army and...

For the very first time in the history of psychiatry, US researchers in genetics and neurology feel that recent studies might reveal the cau...

France's higher house of parliament, the senate , adopted yesterday an amendment that prohibits the patenting of "products that are...

I've preferred to leave the verb "enhance" in inverted commas, because geneticists are frankly playing at behaving as a divini...

That's not meant to be a trick question, but it is surely a tricky question. And I'm not at all certain that I can indeed reply corr...

Over the last month or so, in the context of my work on a future book about Gamone, I’ve been investigating haphazardly and half-heartedly t...

A few days ago, a friendly reader of my blog sent me a link to a list of online genealogical resources [ here ]. I replied that an all-impor...

For ages, it has been said that humans use only a small percentage of their cerebral potential. Personally, I've always been wary of thi...

I've more-or-less terminated the opening chapter of my Skeffington One-Name Study , entitled Elusive patriarch [ download ], dealing wi...

Svante Pääbo , 57, is a Swedish geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. In my blog post of 2...

Dogs, in the context of conventional religions, have often had a hard time. An antiquated version of Revelations , on the very last page of ...

In a blog post of 9 August 2010 entitled Sophia's future companion at Gamone [ display ] , I explained that the elegant name Fitzroy , ...

These days, the general public is being offered countless presentations of scientific conclusions concerning the origins of human beings. Th...

At the start of a recent Dilbert strip, I was surprised, indeed intrigued, to find the Pointy-Haired Boss referring to the sophisticated p...

Germany has finally decided that bean sprouts are the source of the lethal strain of Escherichia coli . But are German scientist well-inform...

Once Fitzroy beds down for the night in his luxurious kennel, on a thick wad of sweet-smelling straw, he seems to sleep soundly. A couple o...

I've just been reading these two books, which tackle a fascinating subject: the genetic origins of the peoples of the British Isles. Wri...

A recent article by Florence Williams in Slate [ display ] reveals apparent differences between Danish and Swedish males concerning the r...

When I first arrived in France, I was amused to find people advising me, apparently in a serious manner, that the best way by far to learn F...

It's truly fantastic to hear that scientists have used a specimen of permafrost-preserved hair to sequence the genome of a male, known h...