New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

The Jewish people’s history in the land of Israel dates back over 3,000 years. Long before the rise of empires and modern ...

Nearly 90% of people carrying genetics that cause dangerously high cholesterol — an inherited condition called familial hypercholesterolemia — were not aware of their risk, researchers recently ...

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia.

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

A genome study contradicts long-held conceptions by determining when domestic felines were introduced into Europe from North Africa.

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...