Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

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

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

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

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

A landmark study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia has revealed that natural selection accelerated sharply after humans adopted farming. Researchers identified 479 gene ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...