When modern humans first ventured out of Africa ... present-day people," the researchers write in their paper. "The Neanderthal DNA they carry could therefore have been introduced by a separate ...

“This paper helps us to understand that DNA [is] more than a sequence of letters; DNA is structurally organized, and human variation that structure is important for genomic function and trait ...

These new results from southernmost Africa are quite different and suggest a long history of relative genetic stability,” ...

Increasingly, ancient DNA ... paper currently under review reveals the discovery of what is believed to be the oldest plague in Britain, dating back almost 3,000 years before the black death.

An international team of scientists who analyzed centuries-old DNA from ... and after the Black Death, which reached London in the mid-1300s. It remains the single greatest human mortality event ...

These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) have around 30 times as much DNA as humans, according to a new paper in the journal Nature, which may give us clues as to how life transitioned ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from ... fascinated humans for centuries," said paper author and evolutionary biologist ...

Extracting fragments of DNA from 4,000-year-old strands of hair from Greenland that had been stored in a Copenhagen museum for decades, they reconstructed the first complete ancient human genome.

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe ... co-lead author of the Science paper and a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute ...

It sounds like science fiction, but researchers are getting better and better at retrieving tiny traces of human genetic material called environmental DNA ... in a new paper published in ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human ... on DNA analysis of hairs collected from the lions' teeth, according to a recent paper ...