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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Published May 15 in Nature Ecology and Evolution, the paper by Duffy's group outlines the relative ease of collecting human DNA nearly everywhere they looked. "We've been consistently surprised ...

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 ...

How the bacterial strain responsible for this pandemic infiltrated human ... Black Death’s ground zero to early 14th-century Central Asia. They analyzed historical records, archaeological data ...