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

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

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

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

Bournemouth University study links ancient genetics and modern pollutants to endometriosis risk, highlighting DNA, chemical exposure, and ...

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 ...

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

It turns out that the answer was no: Your dog’s genes don’t predict its behavior, at least not in the simplistic way popular doggy DNA tests often claim.

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 ...