10,000 years ago, the European forests were inhabited by huge cattle with protruding horns: the aurochs. Then man began to domesticate them and created the cow. By crossing species, he adapted the animals over time so that they increasingly met his needs and desires. Industrial livestock farming was born. From then on, beef cattle and dairy cows such as the Holstein cow were bred. Milk production tripled within a few decades. Today, the cow of the future is produced by artificial insemination. By selecting a few breeding bulls that are considered to be top bulls, rapid genetic progress is ensured.
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...
Can science help us understand these crimes?
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If we compare ourselves with our genetically closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, we have few ...
How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin...
A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, op...
The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can...
Introduction to DNA by Frank Baxter and Bell Labs.
A dangerous idea has threatened the American Dream from the beginning - the belief that some groups ...
Spared by cancer, diabetes and possibly Alzheimer’s, men and women of small stature are intriguing s...
This animated film was made by RIKEN Omics Science Center for the "Beyond DNA" exhibition at the Nat...
After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme inv...
The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...
The documentary depicts the birth of eugenics - a pseudo-science created in the 19th century that pr...
Documentary accompanies scientists in their search for the common ancestors of all humans.
Documentary about living with an addict and grappling with the genetic propensity of becoming one.
This educational film from 1970 traces the inheritance of traits such as sex, eye color, height, and...