A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has intensified over the past 10,000 years. Researchers identified 479 gene ...
The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
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Ancient DNA shows that human evolution never slowed down — it sped up after farming
Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.
Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...
A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...
Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...
Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.
For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...
A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...
The latest genetic research from Stajnia Cave in southern Poland has successfully reconstructed the genetic profile of the oldest known group of Neanderthals in Central-Eastern Europe. The findings, ...
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