Roughly 50,000 years ago, two species of humans met in the shadow of Eurasian ice sheets. One, Homo sapiens, had just ...

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

Bad guys beware: Your DNA is in the air. Scientists have discovered that human DNA can be easily found — allowing it to later be sequenced — virtually anywhere, from furniture to footprints ...

This AI system can analyze up to one million DNA letters at once, predicting how tiny changes in noncoding regions trigger ...

HERVs, or human endogenous retroviruses, make up around 8% of the human genome, left behind as a result of infections that humanity’s primate ancestors suffered millions of years ago.

Over the past decade, however, the study of ancient DNA, recovered from fossils up to around 400,000 years old, has revealed startling new twists and turns in the story of human history.

Now that identifiable human DNA can be isolated from air, these issues really need to get hammered out. Good and bad But the DNA that we are constantly shedding and leaving all around us could ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.

Uniquely Human. The DNA that governs our essential biology has changed remarkably little over the past 100 million years. But of course, we are not identical to kangaroo rats or blue whales.

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. — Fact (@Fact) June 28, 2023. Though commonly repeated, there is no scenario in which "humans and bananas share 50% of their DNA" could be interpreted ...

Footprints on a beach. Air breathed in a room. Ocean water. Scientists have been able to collect and analyze detailed genetic data from human DNA from all these places, raising thorny ethical quest… ...