Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Turns out your brain edits incoming details so quickly, you’d never notice the seams.

Recent breakthroughs in the study of ancient DNA are providing unprecedented insights into the ecosystems and human history ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...