The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

New research shows human language evolved through ancient genetic systems that regulate genes, challenging the previous idea.

A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection ...

The findings suggest a sharp reduction in the local population followed by the arrival of entirely new groups from the south. The burial site itself spans the period from approximately 3200 to 2450 BC ...

Research into ancient DNA samples has discovered that those who carry genes for red hair also are have immune benefits — but ...

Ancient DNA from a tomb near Paris reveals a shocking prehistoric reset: one population vanished and was replaced by ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

Ancient DNA analysis has confirmed that a young boy and a teenage girl buried together in a 1,400-year-old Anglo-Saxon grave in Cherington, Gloucestershire, were brother and sister, and that they ...

Scientists have found a link between super-agers' longevity and DNA analyzed from Ice Age hunter-gatherer populations in ...