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

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through interbreeding about 300,000 years ago. The genetic mixture is ...

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

Admixture results in a blending of genetic lineages, leading to increased genetic diversity within populations. In addition to admixture among modern human populations, ...

Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes have long prompted questions about interspecies mating. Two studies shed light on when that occurred — and when ancient humans left Africa.

Admixture results in a blending of genetic lineages, leading to increased genetic diversity within populations. In addition to admixture among modern human populations, ...

The Neanderthal DNA that many people carry today, the researchers argue, is a legacy from just 100 or 200 Neanderthals. “The effective population size of modern humans outside Africa was about ...

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr." (PBS) For 10 seasons and 106 episodes, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people explore their family history ...

Two pulses of genetic admixture indicate more than one migration event of modern humans out of Africa, and lower Neanderthal population sizes could indicate that their decreasing population was ...

TheWrap magazine: “We truly are a nation of immigrants,” says host Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the aftermath of the PBS program’s first Emmy nomination The post How ‘Finding Your Roots ...