OVER the last 20 years, home DNA test kits have become a ‘fun’ gift, which help people trace their heritage. But, as many ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

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Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on the DNA of early inhabitants of Europe. Analysis of the oldest-known genomes from early ...

Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a ...

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