Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

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

A groundbreaking DNA study has unveiled a hidden chapter in human evolution, revealing that all modern humans evolved from ...

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

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

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 ...

A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

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 ...

Analysis of Adolf Hitler’s DNA reveals he may have had a rare genetic disorder that delays puberty, a new documentary says. Experts say that more details are needed.

According to a new British documentary, analysis of Hitler's DNA proves a rare sexual disorder and high risk of mental ...

With “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb aims for the tricky “middle path”: a life vivid enough to ...