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

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

In Addy’s case, her parents say they often had to educate her medical teams on what the syndrome meant and why they were so ...

Scientists trace Leonardo da Vinci's DNA through his descendants and family tombs to reconstruct his genetic code.

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

A new study explores how ancient southern African populations, isolated for nearly 100,000 years, developed distinct genetic ...

The first study to examine the extent of European ancestry biases in gene maps reveals tens of thousands of genetic ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...