Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals likely shared the plains and forests of Eurasia for 6,000 to 7,000 years. As bands of Homo sapiens spread across the continent, they carried Neanderthal DNA with them.

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Aaron Quinlan, PhD, professor and chair of human genetics in SFESOM and an author on the study, says that previous efforts to study human genetic change were limited to the parts of the genome that ...

Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity. The new “pangenome” incorporates the DNA of 47 individuals from every ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Humans are still evolving – and scientists don't know why. Natural selection isn’t the only factor driving evolution, says Laurence D Hurst.And it’s happening faster than ever before ...

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.

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been off ...