Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of England, revealing that they both had recent ancestors, likely grandparents, ...

Two molecular studies link the nearly complete Harbin skull, at least 146,000 years old, to the elusive Denisovan lineage.

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month. The Allen ...

The landscape of Mzimba in northern Malawi, where some of Africa’s most ancient human DNA has been recovered. Jacob Davis Would you choose to have a part of your body live on after you died? How might ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years. Using sterilized scalpels and two layers ...