In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the past. The technology is being used to create genetic maps of saber ...