DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language ...

In 2015, a team of geneticists cracked open the genomes of 69 ancient Europeans and found something that upended centuries of ...

A University of Iowa study has identified tiny genomic regions, called HAQERs, that strongly influence human language ability and predate the split between modern humans and Neanderthals. These ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

Genome evidence points to a slow blending of peoples — not a violent tide of invaders — that laid the foundations of modern ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

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

An analysis of ancient DNA and modern disease risk suggests some immune genes may reduce allergy risk rather than increase it ...