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Proper heifer nutrition and management keep cattle healthy and increase long-term cattle operation profitability, expert says.

The gestational length of cows is commonly believed to be 283 days. The topic of gestation length often comes up among cattle breeders during calving season. These conversations often pertain to ...

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Interbreeding between Neandertals and ancient anatomically modern humans primarily occurred between male Neandertals and female humans, a new study suggests ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens.

Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination ...