In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

The discovery of ancient human cousins has long stirred wonder and debate. Early Neanderthal remains offered a glimpse into our distant past, prompting questions about how they lived and whether they ...

Researchers used DNA to track historical mixings of populations during more than 4,000 years in a new study. ... which is why they don’t show genetic signatures of a more recent admixture event.

The ancient history of Africa included great empires and many civilizations, but it was probably not the cradle of humanity, ...

Researchers of the HSE International Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Genomics together with their international colleagues have proposed a new statistical method for analysing ...

Genetic admixture in the South Pacific: From Denisovans to the human immune response Date: April 14, 2021 Source: Institut Pasteur Summary: Scientists have looked at understudied human populations ...

Describing the genetic diversity of human populations is essential to improve our understanding of human diseases and their geographical distribution. However, the vast majority of genetic studies ...

How important is intraspecific genetic admixture to the success of colonising populations? Trends in Ecology & Evolution , 2014; 29 (4): 233 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.02.003 Cite This Page : ...

Ancient DNA analyses also indicate genetic admixture within Europe. Despite this evidence, European ancestry populations are mostly regarded as stratified and not as admixed at the subcontinental ...

Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New ...

This major milestone comes four decades after initial efforts by Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo to recover ancient Egyptian DNA ...