Sharing work for which he was just awarded a Nobel Prize, geneticist Svante Pääbo shows the DNA proof that early Homo sapiens mated with Neanderthals after we moved out of Africa.
Our Homo sapiens ancestors shared the world with Neanderthals, Denisovans and other types of humans whose DNA lives on in our genes. Unearthing those extinct genomes has profound practical and philosophical implications.
A new study followed as a Turritopsis dohrnii rejuvenated itself, uncovering developmental patterns for further inquiry.
Scientists have discovered a mutation that increases the production of brain cells and seems to have set our ancestors apart from other hominins.
Trio of studies suggests new homeland for earliest Indo-European speakers and traces movements of ancient Greeks, Imperial Romans
The similarities and differences between your genome and that of everyone else who ever lived is essentially human history written in our genes. The genetic genealogy is a way to read that history and understand where we came from.
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A few dozen human genes rapidly evolved in ancient East Asia to thwart coronavirus infections, scientists say. Those genes could be crucial to today’s pandemic.
A new first-of-its-kind study of DNA recovered from preserved human feces suggests that over the past thousand years the human gut has experienced an “extinction event,” losing dozens of species and becoming significantly less diverse.
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