A groundbreaking DNA study has unveiled a hidden chapter in human evolution, revealing that all modern humans evolved from two ancient and distinct groups. This research, published in March 2025, ...

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

Would you choose to have a part of your body live on after you died? How might your choice affect your relatives—or even your ...

Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher risk of multiple sclerosis than other ancestries: It's a genetic legacy of horseback-riding cattle herders who swept into the region ...

DNA samples from individuals across 2,000 years sheds light on the Etruscan origins, revealing Roman-era changes and genetic ...

This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

Four rounds of DNA sequencing were compared with Y-chromosome samples from verified living relatives obtained by journalist Jean-Paul Mulders. Geneticist Dr. Turi King, known for identifying the ...