When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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

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

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

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 ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...