Experts reveal that merchants brought domestic cats to China via the Silk Road, supported by new DNA research on ancient cat ...

In Europe alone, approximately 2 million people live with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and their incidence has ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Fast-forward to the 21st century, and thanks to the wonders of genetic research, we’re now closer than ever to pinpointing ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

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Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

The vision of Zionism 2.0, Zionism Potentia or Greater Israel as it may be called, rests, importantly on a deeper ...

As early as 8,000 years ago the team found evidence that farmers were deliberately selecting their flocks – for example, for the genes coding for coat colour. Sheep have been intertwined with human ...