Dental calculus is the richest known source of ancient DNA in the archaeological record. That stubborn mineralized plaque, once treated as little more than an unpleasant byproduct of life, has become ...
The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.
For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...
Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. A new ...
FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...
New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.