This is because DNA from even a single individual can reveal a web of relationships, even helping law enforcement to solve ...

Researchers have created the world's largest ancient human gene bank by analyzing the bones and teeth of almost 5,000 humans who lived across Western Europe and Asia up to 34,000 years ago. By ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...