Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world.

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait ...

National DNA Day honors the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003 and the discovery of the double helix of DNA in 1953. In this infographic we rewind time to explore the history of DNA ...

Museum specimens held in natural history collections around the world represent a wealth of underutilized genetic information due to the poor state of preservation of the DNA, which often makes it ...

Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human (and Neanderthal) History The genomes of the long dead are turning up all sorts of unexpected and controversial findings.