For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

(CNN) — An enigmatic skull recovered from the bottom of a well in northeastern China in 2018 sparked intrigue when it didn’t match any previously known species of prehistoric human. Now, scientists ...

A decades-old mystery was uncovered last week when DNA testing was able to identify the man whose remains were found near Paoli way back at the start of the century. The man’s name turns out to be ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

Around 8 percent of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from ancient viruses. These sequences, known as human endogenous retroviruses (or Hervs), date back hundreds of thousands to ...