Neil deGrasse Tyson’s recent remarks on human ancestry have reignited discussion about Africa’s central place in the story of human origins and the political implications of that scientific consensus.

The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to gene flow between individuals from different populations.

The legacy of Neandertals in modern people has often been framed as a genetic gift for fighting infection. This time, the ...

University of Glasgow researchers have helped to develop a new method for understanding the relationships between different DNA sequences and where they come from. This information has widespread ...

A stretch of DNA can look static on a screen, just long rows of A, T, C and G. But buried in those letters are small changes that mark where lineages split, rejoined and drifted over time. Researchers ...

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore) has found that rapid sea-level rise drove early settlers in Southeast Asia to migrate during the ...

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 –The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, since it is passed directly from father to son. In an article published online today in Genome Research ...

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...

Except for the fence, one can imagine the English countryside looks much as it must have when Germanic tribes settled here in the 5th to 7th century A.D. (William Dotinga/Courthouse News) (CN) --- The ...