An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Our DNA reveals extinct "ghost lineages" that shaped human evolution, painting a complex, "braided stream" of history rather than a simple progression. These ancient groups, leaving no fossils, ...

An international research team has extracted genome-wide ancient DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummified women buried in a ...

Across their modelling strategies, the authors place the theoretical upper limit of the modern human lifespan somewhere between 128 and 202 years. They also note the best-verified maximum recorded ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

An international team led by the University of Vienna and Liège University Hospital Centre has uncovered genetic changes linked to a rare inherited ...

Archaeologists at the Lancashire have uncovered new details about the identity of an 11,000-year-old individual known as the ...

Researchers recovered a 250-year-old cold virus from preserved lung tissue, offering rare insight into how respiratory viruses evolved.

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it ...