Arun Durvasula and Sriram Sankararaman, two geneticists at the University of California, Los Angeles, described this so-called ghost archaic population in the journal Science Advances. Their ...

These extinct relatives of Homo sapiens passed genes to African ancestors of modern Yoruba and Mende people starting around 124,000 years ago or later, say UCLA geneticists Arun Durvasula and ...

said Arun Durvasula, a co-author on the study and a human genetics graduate student. However, since there is no genetic information on other archaic humans, the researchers had to create novel ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Arun Durvasula, University of Southern California (THE CONVERSATION) Sitting in my ...

The findings, which come via Discover, were recently published in the journal Science Advances by two researchers from UCLA, Arun Durvasula and Sriram Sankararaman. Durvasula, a PhD student in ...

Arun Durvasula, University of Southern California (THE CONVERSATION) Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she told me, “Genetics don’t really matter for chronic ...