Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. A new ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how ...