By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

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 ...

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.

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

“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 ...

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 have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on the DNA of early inhabitants ... according to a paper published in Nature on Thursday.

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 ...

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 ...