For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

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Now ancient DNA is allowing investigators to find episodes of long-ago selection that have since been overwritten. The first ancient human genome was sequenced in 2010.

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering ...

It was also home to small human communities, including one with fifteen women and children who were buried 7,000 years ago at the Takarkori rock shelter in current-day Libya.