"Where are you from?" has always been a tricky question for me. As a child, I always asserted that I was from Florida — which is true — but people were rarely content with that response. "No, but ...

The failure of Scottish policing bodies to record the ethnicity of arrested people it takes DNA samples from means there is no way of establishing whether minority groups are over-represented in ...

Ancient DNA reveals that the Picts, the "painted people" of Scotland who fought off the Romans, weren't an enigmatic group that migrated from faraway lands. Instead, the Picts had local roots and were ...

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Scotland contains an unexpected amount of human genetic diversity, according to a new study of the country's inhabitants. The project, called "Scotland's DNA," found 150 different genetic lines of ...

Archeologists examining the remains of a woman who died more than 4,250 years ago have discovered surprising new information, thanks to DNA analysis. The remains were discovered at Achavanich in ...

The director of Scotland Yard's forensics division says that Britain should be collecting DNA samples from any primary school children who show signs of behavior that exhibit a propensity for later ...