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 ...

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...