Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

Originally published with subtitle: The stories in our genes. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016. With new foreword. NH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. In our unique ...