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

10,000-Year-Old Genomes Rewrite Human Evolution ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...