To say that the human genome is full of information would be an understatement. A single cell is packed with a 6-billion-letter code inside of a strand of DNA, acting like an instruction manual for ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

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.

Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are preserved? This is the question investigated by an international research team ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.