Long-distance migration along Peru's Pacific coast began at least 800 years ago, centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire ...

Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

A joint team of Chinese and Indonesian scientists has used ancient genome data to reconstruct the genetic history of ...

The Francis Crick Institute is bringing ancient DNA research into focus with a new exhibition showing how fragments of ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

New DNA evidence could change our understanding of how humans settled and spread in South America as research has revealed ...

New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who lived in ...

Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are preserved? This is the question investigated by an international research team ...

Learn how genomes across Japan show traces of a previously overlooked ancestral group alongside Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA linked to modern diseases and drug responses. A third ancestral group may ...