University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how animals ...

The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to gene flow between individuals from different populations.

Researchers deciphered genetic data to discover two distinct settler groups dispersed into what is now New Guinea and Australia. The data supports the “long chronology” view that modern humans arrived ...

A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought to have descended from a single lineage, is now believed to be the product ...

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 –The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, since it is passed directly from father to son. In an article published online today in Genome Research ...

At the turn of the century, the biomedical research community saw a landmark global effort, when scientists built a reference human genome sequence to better understand the genes underlying health and ...

Learn how sex-biased interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans explains why Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the X chromosome. When Neanderthals and modern humans met tens of ...

Except for the fence, one can imagine the English countryside looks much as it must have when Germanic tribes settled here in the 5th to 7th century A.D. (William Dotinga/Courthouse News) (CN) --- The ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...

The hot debate over just how—and when—the human population in what is now Australia and New Guinea formed took a major step toward the “long chronology” camp with new research claiming that genetic ...