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

When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common ...

Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating insights into the genetic history of the region. This groundbreaking ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

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

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

As human groups migrated and settled across Holocene Eurasia, dogs often traveled with them, researchers report in a new genomic study – and sometimes dogs were traded among populations. The study ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA from a tiny 5 cm long Neanderthal bone found in the Crimean peninsula, ...