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, ...

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

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

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The Gettysburg Museum of History has issued an official statement clarifying the key historical findings presented in the new BBC ...

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.

Adolf Hitler had a rare genetic sexual disorder, according to new DNA research. The Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, ...

Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's ...

A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in occupied Palestine may bear the earliest known artistic depiction of the origin ...

The disappearance of the Neanderthals is one of the greatest mysteries of human evolution. For decades, science has ...

This is because DNA from even a single individual can reveal a web of relationships, even helping law enforcement to solve crimes committed by distant relatives they have never met. And as you ...