The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.
Ancient DNA reveals a sudden population collapse and replacement in Europe 5,000 years ago during the Neolithic decline.
DNA studies of 1,500-year-old skeletons have revealed that ancient Koreans lived in tightly knit family networks where ...
Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...
Pushing back the domestication timeline by 5,000 years via ancient DNA, a new study suggests dogs lived with humans 14,000 to ...
Ciara Wanket drilling for sedaDNA samples in Canada’s Yukon territory. This ash layer from the volcano eruption she studied is visible as a pale stripe in the dark permafrost sediment. For the first ...
Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.