The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...
Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.
A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection ...
Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.
Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...
For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...
A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...
Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...