Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...

The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct ...

Research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution introduces a novel method for inferring DNA methylation patterns in non-skeletal tissues from ancient specimens, providing new insights into human ...

Ancient DNA provides a direct look at the genomes of individuals who lived closer in time to these events, allowing researchers to observe evolutionary changes before they were lost. In this way, ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...

For years, the common belief among scientists was that human evolution had basically slowed to a crawl once we invented medicine, built cities and started farming our own food. If we could grow enough ...

Researchers recovered sheeppox virus DNA from ancient parchment and Bronze Age sheep remains. The findings trace the ...

Modern genomes preserve traces of ancient relatives that mixed with human ancestors in Africa and Eurasia.

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human evolution is, stretching back millions of years to when the first primates ...

Some of Europe's most well-known historic manuscripts, including the York Gospels, have proven to be biological time capsules ...

DNA of the ancient virus was extracted from millennium old sheepskin Bible parchment, now in the collections of the ...

You’ve heard of deep space, but what about deep time? Today’s geneticists and evolutionary biologists can extend their investigations further back in time than ever imagined. Still, many mysteries ...