We don’t know where they came from. We don’t know where they went. The unique DNA of an ancient tribe of hunter-gatherers is adding to the confusion surrounding the source of South America’s first ...

A large government study published Thursday shows more definitively than ever before that Americans’ self-reported race is a ...

Scientists were able to determine the biological sex of the Paranthropus robustus specimens by analyzing specific protein ...

It was previously assumed that human evolution followed a straight-line path, whereby separate populations evolved to branch out ... with another population, genetic evidence would have been ...

Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability ...

People coming from the north settled South America. The first hunter-gatherers entered the continent from the region of what ...

but that parts of it would occasionally branch off and then later merge back together, we get a much better match with the genetic variation found in human populations today,” says population ...

By comparing genetic ... the population rebounded. Dr. Hu and his colleagues argue in their paper that this bottleneck is consistent with the fossil record of our human ancestors. Our branch ...

The aim was to see if certain genes in the gorilla branch of the tree of ... isn't strong pressure to get rid of genetic mutations that could hinder a population's survival — such as those ...

These new findings could shed light on a mysterious extinct branch of humanity known as Denisovans, who were close relatives of Neanderthals, scientists added. 'Mystery population' of human ...

From the beginning of genetics and genomics research, researchers have used “population descriptors” as a shorthand for capturing the complex patterns of human genetic variation across the globe. For ...