Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Around 33,000 years ago, Europe's climate cooled and a new human culture known as the Gravettians, known for hunting woolly ...

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.