The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A landmark study of nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that human evolution accelerated over ...

A landmark study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia has revealed that natural selection accelerated sharply after humans adopted farming. Researchers identified 479 gene ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.