A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

humans who lived elsewhere in the world at the time of mitochondrial Eve were completely ... in both Africa and Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern humans (Figure 1 ...

The story of human evolution usually starts at the point ... the Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA. These have allowed scientists to assemble "family trees" which show that all modern humans ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

Typically, humans inherit mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA from their mothers only. But using sequencing data from the mitochondrial genomes of members from three unrelated families, researchers ...

Ancient DNA studies provide critical insights into human evolution and extinct species, leveraging advanced techniques to ...

DNA survives less well in bones from temperate environments, but cave environments seem to provide some protection. Ancient DNA has been successfully extracted and analysed from 35,000 year-old human ...

"This is the first time this type of system has been documented in European prehistory," study lead author Lara Cassidy, a human geneticist ... shared a rare mitochondrial DNA lineage — U5b1 ...