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

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

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

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

A study scanned genomes from over 450,000 people to find individuals who carry rare archaic versions of DNA changes once ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

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

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...