Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of ...

Forensics experts gather DNA to understand who was present at a crime scene. But what if the crime occurred in the middle of ...

DNA from samples spanning 8,500–1,300 years ago shows how ancient Europeans adapted to the development of early agriculture. Genes underwent significant changes in 14 regions of the genome. For ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter vomiting, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University ...