Scientists turn modern biobanks into a new window on human evolution

For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including fossils, genetic variation across populations and ancient DNA. Building on these approaches, researchers are increasingly using large population biobanks to investigate how n...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-07-scientists-modern-biobanks-window-human.html)