The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan ...

(CN) — A team of researchers has assessed the population history of the region of Lake Baikal in Siberia using human population genetics, ancient pathogen genomics and isotope analysis, and found a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DNA extracted from the skull of a man buried 4,500 years ago in an Ethiopian cave is providing new clarity on the ancestry of modern Africans as well as shedding light on an ...

Ancient genomes recovered from skeletal material found at 39 archaeological sites indicate that the Xinjiang region of China was settled by people with central and eastern Eurasian Steppe ancestry ...

In this study, we determined nine genomes of Japanese wolves and 11 genomes of modern Japanese dogs at high coverage and analyzed with one hundred dog and wolf genomes in the public database. The ...

A man who lived in Siberia about 14,000 years ago is the earliest known person in the world to have the specific mix of genes seen in people with Native American ancestry, analysis of DNA from a ...