The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

The genetic evidence is consistent with a father-daughter union, making it one of the clearest and earliest documented cases ...

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants. It’s an unfathomable amount of data. Which leads us to another central ...

A new study reveals how ancient DNA from the Villabruna cluster influences longevity in the modern Italian population.

hLife adopts format-free submission. Format-free submission means that, provided you include everything necessary for review ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

The Ancient Pazyryk culture's frozen tombs, preserved mummies, tattoos, and artifacts reshape views on nomadic life.

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...