Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

Early ancestral bottleneck could’ve spelled the end for modern humans. Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters. Journal Science Funder National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

Footprints left on a beach. Air breathed in a busy room. Ocean water. Scientists have been able to collect and analyze detailed genetic data from human DNA from all these places, raising thorny ...

The roughly two-decade-old human reference genome derives mostly from one man, but is a patchwork quilt of more than 60 people’s DNA (SN: 3/4/21). It has been restitched and added to over the ...

Now that identifiable human DNA can be isolated from air, these issues really need to get hammered out. Good and bad But the DNA that we are constantly shedding and leaving all around us could ...

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 off ...