Carlson’s insisted that Israelis should undergo genetic testing to determine if they have a rightful claim to the land of ...

A study of the Mani Peninsula reveals that over half of local men share a paternal lineage reaching back to the early medieval era.

When I found out my father had been adopted, I was curious to know more about his side of the family. Nothing could have prepared me for what I would discover ...

An Oklahoma woman says she recently uncovered her family’s connection to a racial massacre in Arkansas ...

A major study shows how people in Bronze Age Europe adapted to change through shifting ancestry, burial rites and daily life practices.

Ancestral Shadows,' out March 10, follows a genealogist pulled into family secrets, DNA surprises and a mystery tied to her adopted aunt.

The largely discredited theory states that Ashkenazi Jews are genetically descended from a Turkic minority that converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages rather than from the 12 tribes of Israel.

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.

Researchers screened more than 220,000 single-letter DNA changes, identifying thousands that regulate gene activity in brain, liver, and blood cells. The work sharpens disease risk prediction and ...

Directed by Andrew Standon (‘Wall-E’, ‘Finding Nemo’) and starring Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, and Daveed Diggs, In the ...