A fossil unearthed on Eastern Europe’s Crimean Peninsula has divulged the strongest genetic clues yet about Neandertals’ long-distance journeys into the heart of Asia. After identifying a bone ...

A Late Neolithic skull. For the recent study, scientists extracted DNA from skulls and teeth to look for traces of diseases. Marie Louise Jørkov under CC BY-NC 3.0 From avian influenza to Zika virus, ...

Astounding research in four scientific papers published on January 10 in Nature, show that the genetic makeup of modern Europeans was largely determined through migration waves from Asia starting ...

Whether by walking a land bridge or traveling by boat, hunter-gatherers ventured out from eastern Eurasia some 20,000 to 30,000 years ago to become the first Americans. But the intercontinental ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...