The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Researchers found that Neanderthals carried excess modern human DNA on their X chromosomes, pointing to predominantly male ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA of any animal ever found. These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) ...

After more than two decades of work, researchers have achieved a genetics milestone: they have successfully sequenced the complete genomes of six ape species, a feat that seemed impossible just a few ...

Our team is led by Dr. Caroline Colijn and includes researchers who are applying mathematical and statistical tools to answer important questions in the areas of genomics, epidemiology, biology and ...

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...