For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common ...

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 DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has shaped modern human genomes far more than previously thought.

Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.

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

Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D production ...

Learn how ancient DNA and archaeogenetics are reshaping what we know about family and revealing that kinship in early ...

Ancient DNA and protein analysis reveal that modern Old Irish Goats are closely related to Bronze Age populations. This ...

本や文章などの記録がない時代の人類については、かつて考古学で研究されていましたが、「人種や民族がどのように移り変わっていったのか」は、ジェノグラフィック・プロジェクトの例に見られるように、今や考古学よりも遺伝学によって多くの事が ...

Investigating questions of kinship, archaeologists discovered that treating non-blood relatives as family goes back to the ...