More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

The domestic cat has a long, complex and uncertain history. Ancient DNA is making its origin story clearer.

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

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just beginning to grasp their genetic data.

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...