Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.

Most animals straightforwardly inherit their genetic material. DNA passes from parent to offspring, generation after generation, creating the biological continuity that links families, populations and ...

I N 2011 A team of geneticists managed to recover centuries-old DNA from the teeth of bodies that had been buried in East ...

The people of Near Oceania carry a genetic legacy that stretches back almost to the beginning of humanity’s expansion across ...

Genes aren't just transferred from parents to their offspring. Nature has found other ways to pass on genetic information, even between different species. And a new study, published in the journal ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

Ancient DNA reveals that cave lions were a distinct evolutionary lineage that split from modern lions more than a million ...

Migrating newborn neurons suffer routine double-strand DNA breaks from physical stress during brain development.