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.

Genes from the minority population, particularly those related to brain function, may have played a crucial role in human ...

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 ...

A man whose conviction for a 1994 murder was overturned on new DNA evidence says he’s having a hard time adjusting to today’s hyper-connected world after spending the past 30 years behind bars.

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 ...