Forty-three years after the skeletal remains of a man were discovered in a wooded area, the Volusia Sheriff’s Office (VSO) ...

“The question of where we come from is one that has fascinated humans for centuries,” said Dr. Trevor Cousins, a Cambridge University researcher. Such thousands of years of curiosity have now been ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters. The applications of these ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world’s scientific community has been racing to decipher this “book” written in an alphabet of four letters. The applications of these ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

“Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid simile, Princeton geneticist Joshua Akey describes a process that, until ...

For over four decades, a man who was found dead by two campers in Volusia County has only been known as "John Doe." ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...