Ancient DNA can be a powerful tool for helping us reconstruct the long-dead past. Most surviving genetic material comes from ...

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans.

New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, ...

For a long time, the last Neanderthals in Europe were pictured as a genetically diverse bunch, scattered across the continent ...

For years, the common belief among scientists was that human evolution had basically slowed to a crawl once we invented ...

Scientists visually tracked an RNA intron jumping from a predator to its prey, revealing insights into gene transfer across ...

Researchers extracted DNA from animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that genetic material ...