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

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

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

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

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

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

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

It's long been assumed that as cells divide in the human body, the genome is faithfully replicated in the resulting daughter cells. While errors are known to arise, there is machinery in the cell that ...

Mutations in "junk DNA" could be responsible for rare genetic cases of intellectual disability, new research hints. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.