A study of burials at Heraclea Sintica reveals residents of mixed European and African ancestry, highlighting migration and social life.

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Previous studies suggested that early human populations in the Eurasian Steppe and northern China were less connected with each other until the spread of pastoralism and metallurgy around the third ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Within a few centuries, the genetic landscape of the Rhine-Meuse region, including the wetlands, was completely reshaped. Our ...

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a team (led by researchers from Uppsala University) describes how they mined ancient DNA from teeth and ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

The DNA of elites from the Golden Horde reveals roots in Mongolia and direct links to the line of Genghis Khan.

For a long time, we’ve been sold the idea that Genghis Khan, the 13th-century founder of the Mongol Empire, was so phenomenally prolific that one in 200 men alive today carries his exact Y chromosome.

An international research team has generated the first haplotype-resolved genome assemblies of Munage, one of China’s oldest ...

It’s an often-cited factoid that 1 in 200 men (0.5 percent of the world’s male population) can directly trace their ancestry ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...