The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

The divide between their lineage and ours narrowed even further in 2010, when researchers published the first Neandertal genome sequence. Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and at least a few that may be good for you ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

1b. One clear message from this brief overview is that the human genome might yet encode additional DNA polymerases. Several approaches might be useful in searching for these proteins. First ...

Discover the fascinating history of cat domestication and genetic analysis results, revealing how ancient Egyptians played a ...