The people of Near Oceania carry a genetic legacy that stretches back almost to the beginning of humanity’s expansion across ...

Researchers have extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA from eight Neanderthal teeth found in a single cave in southern Poland, ...

Padma Shri awardee Dr Kumarasamy Thangaraj helped prove that Andaman tribes carry one of the world's oldest human genetic ...

Scientists have extracted the entire genome of a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal from a single toe bone in a Siberian cave, an accomplishment that far outstrips any previous work on Neanderthal genes.

Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. Today, it’s a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...