An international research team has extracted genome-wide ancient DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummified women buried in a Libyan rock shelter, identifying a deeply divergent human lineage that appears ...

NHREF copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Alan R. Kabat. ANTHMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank. Contents 1. Setting up an ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA from a tiny 5 cm long Neanderthal bone found in the Crimean peninsula, ...

Last week, Colossal Biosciences made global headlines when they announced that they had successfully brought the dire wolf back from extinction, or at least a version of one. Colossal's team used ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth ...