New research has uncovered the complex biological history preserved within DNA traces found on the Shroud of Turin, offering ...

Ancient DNA Analysis Suggests Syphilis Existed in the Americas Before European Contact, Stirring Debate About Origins ...

Scientists recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls for the first time. Refined, the method could help link prehistoric ...

For decades, scientists believed modern humans came from one main ancestral group in Africa, an idea known as the 'Out of Africa' model. But new DNA research suggests the story may be far more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds ancient regulatory DNA tied to human language, with effects that predate the split from Neanderthals. (CREDIT: ...

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one day identify individual artists and resolve the debate over Neanderthals' ar ...

Yarn used to make the Shroud of Turin may have likely come from ancient India's Indus Valley region, according to a new DNA analysis of samples from the linen fabric believed to have been used to wrap ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible. Researchers found that these DNA regions, which act like volume controls for genes ...

A new genetic study has shifted the way scientists describe the origins of modern humans. For many years, the simplest explanation was that Homo sapiens emerged from a single ancestral population in ...