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 ...

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human ...

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 ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

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

Around 2400 BC, the people who had built Stonehenge and other massive Neolithic monuments effectively vanished. Previous ancient DNA studies showed that they were replaced by newcomers with Steppe ...

This volume offers recommendations for handling DNA samples, performing calculations, and other aspects of using DNA as a forensic tool. It addresses two major areas - determination of DNA profiles ...