Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nearly complete cranium recovered from a well in Harbin, China, dates to at least 146,000 years ago. - Hebei GEO University An ...
An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...
Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who arrived on the island, when they came, and how their descendants shaped the ...
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The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...
Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar feline companions first stepped out of Africa and into homes, ships and cities ...