genetics & genomics, evolution, human evolution

The genomes of a 5,200-year-old woman and three 4,000-year-old men yield clues about the founding of Celtic populations.

New clues from ancient DNA reveal the remarkable effect of agriculture on adaptation in Stone Age humans who lived across Europe.

A point mutation analysis of the entire human genome finds that alterations to as many as 7.5 percent of nucleotides may have contributed to humans’ evolutionary split from chimpanzees.

Early Neanderthal evolution; developing antivirals to combat polio; the mouth and skin microbiomes; insect-inspired, flight-stabilizing sensors

A newly sequenced Neanderthal genome provides insight into the sex lives of human ancestors.

Human-specific duplications of a gene involved in brain development may have contributed to our species’ unique intelligence.

Women of the French families that colonized Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries had more children and grandchildren than late comers to the region.