Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

As an undergraduate, I was taught that Homo sapiens was one of these branches that emerged in Africa, spread across the world ...

The incredible archaeological discovery in Cumbria has changed some parts of Britain's prehistoric timeline because the ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability.

A joint team of Chinese and Indonesian scientists has used ancient genome data to reconstruct the genetic history of ...

Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are preserved? This is the question investigated by an international research team ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...

Applying new analytic methods to nearly 16,000 ancient genomes reveals natural selection has acted on hundreds, not dozens, of genes in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. More than half of the ...

When Matthias Meyer began studying the ancient DNA in the 400,000 year old fossils he found in the Sima de los Huesos, or Pit of Bones cave, deep beneath the Atapuerca mountains in Spain, he was ...