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.

The research provides insights into the demographics of early modern humans. Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on the DNA of ...

“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,” ...

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.

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 ...

and wrote supplementary material on the site for the new research paper. Human and animal mitochondrial DNA were extracted from the sediments of the lower levels of the site. "We don't need bones ...

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 ...