Jun 3, 2016 by News Staff

Dogs may have been domesticated independently in Asia and Europe from two separate wolf populations, according to a new study led by the University of...

Jun 11, 2015 by News Staff

The Bronze Age was a period of major cultural changes in Europe and Central Asia. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the...

May 29, 2015 by News Staff

A new genomic analysis of people currently living in Egypt and Ethiopia suggests that Eurasians originated when early Africans moved north – through...

Mar 9, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the journal European Journal of Human Genetics, millions of modern Asian men are descended from eleven dynastic leaders,...

Apr 8, 2014 by News Staff

A new genetic study, published in the journal Genetics, supports the hypothesis that Neanderthals interbred with anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Eurasia. A...

Jun 12, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New genetic research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences refutes a recent theory that there is evidence for the presence of...

Aug 21, 2012 by News Staff

According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest...