Maybe Neanderthals were not wiped out in a catastrophic event some 40,000 years ago. In fact, perhaps they never truly ...

A new study maps 40,000 years of Denisovan and human interbreeding, showing how ancient DNA spread, faded, and shaped ...

Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some ...

The history of humanity is an intricate tapestry, whose threads not only belong to our own species but intertwine with those ...

The 10K_CPGDP Consortium has released one of its pilot works detailing the genetic diversity and admixture history of ethno-linguistically diverse groups residing in the Silk Road region of China. The ...

An area called the central Southern Cone in South America, which consists of a large part of Argentina, is known to be one of ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a ...

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 ...