Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...
The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be ...
When and how ancient humans reached what is now Australia and New Guinea has been a long – and hotly contested – discussion. Now, the results of a genetic study suggests it occurred at least 60,000 ...
The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, according to a new genomics study. The question of when humans first arrived on the ...
Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the ...