In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants. It’s an unfathomable amount of data. Which leads us to another central ...