Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Genome-wide DNA technology promises greater insights into how ancient cultures survived and thrived. In an interdisciplinary study published on February 23, 2022, in the journal Nature (“Ancient DNA ...

In 2006, US scientists published a landmark study that linked lower levels of a gene known as PCSK9 to lower rates of heart disease. Researchers then sought to test the thesis by identifying subjects ...

Before the advent of DNA testing, scholars relied on shipping records that listed the African ports from which slaves were exported to determine where in Africa the African-descended population of the ...

Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilizations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent. We have now shed more light on some of these ...

DNA is an incredibly revealing thing. Just by looking at someone’s DNA, it’s possible to determine what kind of health problems that person is predisposed to. This kind of information is even more ...