When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

The domestic cat has a long, complex and uncertain history. Ancient DNA is making its origin story clearer.

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...