Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...

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

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

A new study has shown that almost two thirds of modern dog breeds carry traces of wolf DNA, which could influence their size, ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...