Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

A new study suggests that certain genetic differences, passed down from ancient human ancestors, and exposure to common ...

A new study suggests that certain genetic differences, passed down from ancient human ancestors, and exposure to common present-day chemicals could ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

In the river terraces of central China’s Hubei Province, a fossilized skull once dismissed as too crushed for meaningful ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Kian Sadeghi, the 25-year-old founder and CEO at Nucleus Genomics, tells "CBS Mornings" that parents have every right to select the qualities and traits they desire in their child.

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...