The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

The latest genetic research from Stajnia Cave in southern Poland has successfully reconstructed the genetic profile of the oldest known group of Neanderthals in Central-Eastern Europe. The findings, ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Parrots captured in the Amazon rainforest by pre-Inca people were transported hundreds of miles over the Andes to coastal ...