After surviving for nearly 400,000 years across Eurasia, Neanderthals vanished some 40,000 years ago, just as Homo sapiens began to spread across the continent. A recent study now suggests that their ...

A Xhosa woman’s viral TikTok about her DNA test sparks major interest, inspiring South Africans to explore their heritage and ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

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A new study has uncovered a direct genetic link between ancient practitioners of the Hanging Coffin burial tradition and the ...

Using 150 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers across 252 tea accessions from India and China, researchers identified ...

Scientists have long speculated what caused the downfall of the Neanderthals, but a new study suggests they never truly went extinct at all. Scientists in Italy and Switzerland claim the ancient group ...

Admixture mapping can be leveraged to identify genomic loci associated with disease traits in admixed individuals such as Hispanic Americans. We ascertained genetically admixed Hispanic Americans ...

Mystery Of John Doe’s Identity Haunts Cold Case Unit In Florida (VSO) Forty-three years after the skeletal remains of a man were discovered in a wooded area, the Volusia Sheriff’s Office (VSO) and FHD ...

Linguists have long known that when cultures collide, languages rub off on one another. We borrow words, swap sounds, and even reshape grammar. But charting those exchanges across centuries and ...

People do not want to be bothered by things outside their control. They pretend to be in control of many things that they cannot influence, usually through symbols and talismans, but often they also ...