The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

Sacrificial victims in mass burials were mostly male, while burial attendants for nobles or elites were overwhelmingly female ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

New DNA studies show domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread later than believed, while ancient China lived ...