Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

Scientists have discovered traces of a genetic signature associated with Indigenous Australasians dating from China's Tang dynasty A massive genomic study of Indigenous peoples in the Americas has ...

Recent ancient DNA studies reveal that human populations have long been shaped by migration and mixing, undermining ideas of genetic purity. Research from Europe, the Near East, and Africa shows ...

Genomic data provides evidence for a previously unknown wave of migration, with Indigenous groups living in central and ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid the exchange of flowers and cards, genomic ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...