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, ...

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

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

In a remarkable development that challenges our understanding of life’s origins, researchers have identified human-like DNA ...

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

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

New genetic research has shed fresh light on one of the most mysterious chapters in human evolution—the relationship between ...

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

The Gettysburg Museum of History has issued an official statement clarifying the key historical findings presented in the new BBC documentary "Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator." The Museum ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown genetic history in Argentina that stretches back at least 10,000 years, offering the most detailed view yet of how ancient populations lived, mixed, and ...

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.