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DNA evidence shows surprise cultural connections between Britain and Europe...
DNA evidence shows surprise cultural connections between Britain and Europe 8,000 years ago. Researchers found evidence for a variety of wheat at a submerged archaeological site off the south coast of...
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A gene for brain size makes the difference in humans
This picture shows a cerebral cortex of an embryonic mouse. The cell nuclei are marked in blue and the deep-layer neurons in red. The human-specific gene ARHGAP11B was selectively expressed in the...
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Are you a descendant of Genghis Khan? Millions of modern men descendants of...
Geneticists from the University of Leicester have discovered that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 powerful dynastic leaders who lived up to 4,000 years ago — including Mongolian...
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Fossil skull sheds new light on transition from water to land
The first 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a 360-million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates has been created. The 3-D skull, which differs from earlier 2-D reconstructions, suggests such...
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Slave trade and colonization: Complex genetic ancestry of Americans uncovered
“The Slave Trade” by Auguste François Biard, 1840 By comparing the genes of current-day North and South Americans with African and European populations, a study has found the genetic fingerprints of...
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‘Little Foot': The Older Relative of ‘Lucy’
A skeleton named Little Foot is among the oldest hominid skeletons ever dated at 3.67 million years old, according to an advanced dating method. Little Foot is a rare, nearly complete skeleton of...
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Mountain gorillas enter the genomic age
Researchers have produced the first whole-genome sequences of endangered mountain gorillas in the Virunga volcanic mountain range in central Africa. Findings from sequence analysis suggest the...
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Our bond with dogs may go back more than 27,000 years
Dogs’ special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient Taimyr wolf bone reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 21....
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Partly human yeast show a common ancestor’s lasting legacy
Despite a billion years of evolution separating humans from the baker’s yeast in their refrigerators, hundreds of genes from an ancestor that the two species have in common live on nearly unchanged in...
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Ancient DNA sheds light on how past environments affected ancient populations
A new study by anthropologists from The University of Texas at Austin shows for the first time that epigenetic marks on DNA can be detected in a large number of ancient human remains, which may lead to...
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When modern Eurasia was born
This image shows a typical group of Danish Bronze Age barrows from ca. 3,500-3,100 BP. Normally they were 3-5 meters high, constructed with cut out grass turfs (sods). One barrow would demand 3...
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How small genetic change in Yersinia pestis changed human history
While studying Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for epidemics of plague such as the Black Death, Wyndham Lathem, Ph.D., assistant professor in microbiology-immunology at Northwestern...
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Genome analysis pins down arrival and spread of first Americans. Comparing...
The original Americans came from Siberia in a single wave no more than 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, and apparently hung out in the north — perhaps for thousands of years —...
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Effect of environmental epigenetics on disease, evolution
Washington State University researchers say environmental factors are having an underappreciated effect on the course of disease and evolution by prompting genetic mutations through epigenetics, a...
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Gene deletions, duplications reveal our genetic storyline
By looking closely at DNA variation across a vast number of populations, researchers now have a better idea of how selection affects the human genome around the globe. Counterclockwise from the top:...
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New synthesis method imitates the way molecules were formed at the dawn of...
Researchers from the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), with support from the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Service of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have developed a...
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Ancient genome from Africa sequenced for the first time
The first ancient human genome from Africa to be sequenced has revealed that a wave of migration back into Africa from Western Eurasia around 3,000 years ago was up to twice as significant as...
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Our closest wormy cousins: About 70% of our genes trace their ancestry back...
A team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and its collaborators has sequenced the genomes of two species of small water creatures called acorn worms and...
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Tweak in gene expression may have helped humans walk upright
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama, have identified a change in gene expression between humans and primates...
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New research on Austronesian languages refute longstanding theory
Austronesian languages expansion map. Periods are based on archeological studies, though the association of the archeological record and linguistic reconstructions is disputed. Based on the Atlas...
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