In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

Research led by Jilin University, China, is providing bioarchaeological evidence on a mass grave at the Bayanbulag site in ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

The new study showed that the frequency of people with dark skin was still high in parts of Europe until the Copper Age (also ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic ...

Under the right conditions, genetic data retrieved from ancient human fossils can be a powerful tool to study similarities and differences separating human lineages and is complementary to classical ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed Lapedo Child remains shows that remains of a child with both human and ...

At best, Cypriot men are 30 per cent of Greek descent, a study constructing the DNA reference of Cypriots has so far shown.This indicates the island’s population has more genetic similarities with ...

Scientists have successfully dated the remains of a child with both human and Neanderthal features discovered in Portugal 27 ...

A new study has been published in Nature Communications, presenting the first comprehensive atlas of allele-specific DNA ...