NewsNeanderthals Had Ancient Interactions with ‘Cousins’ of Modern Humansby University of PennsylvaniaA new collaborative study shows that Neanderthals inherited some of their genome from a lineage of early modern humans
NewsSpecial Issue: Ancient DNAby American Association for the Advancement of ScienceThree reviews examine the landscape of how ancient DNA is studied
NewsAncient Human Remains Were Subsequently Manipulated and Utilizedby PLOSFindings add to a pattern of human burial and modification in the Iberian Peninsula
NewsPaleogeneticists Analyze a 3,800-Year-Old Extended Familyby Johannes Gutenberg University MainzIndividuals from a burial site in the southern Ural region show close kinship relations
NewsEuropeans’ Cultural and Genetic Development Linked over Thousands of Yearsby Uppsala UniversityDNA research shows the intermingling of genetic lines was linked with geography
NewsAncient DNA Reveals an Early African Origin of Cattle in the Americasby Florida Museum of Natural HistoryDNA evidence from Spanish settlements indicates that cattle were imported from Africa early in colonization
NewsAncient DNA Reveals Diverse Community in ‘Lost City of the Incas’by Tulane UniversityThe analysis showed that individuals came from all over the Inca Empire
NewsRemains of an Extinct World of Organisms Discoveredby GFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesUntil now, certain biomarkers, the "protosteroids," have been overlooked as fossil witnesses to primordial life
NewsThe Farming Lifestyle in Northwestern Africa Was Ignited by Oversea-Migrantsby Uppsala UniversityAncient DNA confirms the shift from foraging to farming in Africa happened 7,400 years ago
News4,000-Year-Old Plague DNA Found—the Oldest Cases to Date in Britainby The Francis Crick InstituteThe presences of Yersinia pestis was found in the dental pulp extracted from human remains in a mass burial