Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Languages and human DNA both capture aspects of human diversity. But how are they related? A new international study led by ...

Learn how a potato-rich diet may have reshaped human genes in the Andes thousands of years ago. Those changes could have ...

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

Researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The resulting datasets, shared in two back-to-back publications in the journal Nature, constitute what may be ...

Genome assemblies from 65 individuals, representing a variety of the world’s populations, are advancing the scientific exploration of complex genetic structural variation. Structural variations are ...

A new genetic study has shifted the way scientists describe the origins of modern humans. For many years, the simplest ...

Extinct species Strange mammal ancestor laid huge, leathery eggs —‬ and it was key to surviving the world's worst mass extinction Dinosaurs 95 million-year-old Spinosaurus had a scimitar-shaped head ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

The information encoded in the DNA of an organism is not sufficient to determine the expression pattern of genes. This fact has been known even before the discovery of epigenetics, which refers to ...