For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Scientists decoded the 4,500-year-old genome of an Egyptian buried like royalty but built like a laborer—rewriting ancient ...

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Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

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In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

“Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.” – François Rabelais ...

Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long ...

In a Nutshell The first complete ancient Egyptian genome shows this 4,800-year-old individual had mostly North African ...