Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Some of our DNA comes from ancient human ancestors, and it might still be influencing our health today. A new study from Bournemouth University suggests that regulatory variants inherited from ...

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It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

A large proportion of East Asian people carry unique versions of the lactase gene that enables humans to digest the sugars in milk, new research hints. These genetic variants were likely inherited ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers studying Denisovan ancestry within East Asian populations found an anomaly in the lineage of the Jomon people. The group has little to no ...

Helena Malmström, Researcher at Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, sampling at the Florisbad research station using the mobile clean lab. In southern Africa, a group of people lived ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of the genomes of 28 people who lived between 10,200 ...