The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the ...

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

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Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

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New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...

Paul B. Allen was there during the early days of Ancestry.com, when he helped launch a company to popularize family history research, and do it on a newfangled platform — the Internet. Since the 1990s ...