Aug 22, 2016 by Natali Anderson

According to a team of botanists and dendrochronologists from the University of Arizona, Stockholm University and the University of Mainz, a pine growing...

Aug 2, 2016 by News Staff

A team of researchers has identified 17 genetic variations associated with depression in individuals of European ancestry. The team identified 17 new genetic...

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...

May 25, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists from Lebanon, Tunisia, France and New Zealand has sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of the ‘Young Man of...

May 3, 2016 by News Staff

Analyses of genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from 7,000 – 45,000 years ago reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely...

Apr 25, 2016 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by University of Leeds scientist Dr. Alexander Dunhill has used the so-called ‘Network Theory’ to visually depict the...

Apr 19, 2016 by News Staff

A new tool called the Geographic Population Structure (GPS), which converts DNA data into its ancestral coordinates, has pinpointed origin of Yiddish speakers,...

Apr 13, 2016 by News Staff

New research published online in the journal PLoS ONE is the first scientific analysis of the oldest known evidence of a shamanic costume in Europe. Depiction...

Mar 28, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers on the AstRoMap project, a coordination action supported by the European Commission, have surveyed the state of the art of astrobiology in...

Feb 23, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists from Czech Republic, France and Germany has identified a cryptic new species of grass snake living in the North African...

Feb 17, 2016 by News Staff

A multinational group of researchers has found strong genetic evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and anatomically modern Homo sapiens...

Feb 5, 2016 by News Staff

DNA evidence lifted from the bones and teeth of hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe from 35,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene) to 7,000 years ago (early...

Nov 17, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of researchers has sequenced the genomes of Late Upper Paleolithic (13,300 years old) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old) males from...

Sep 29, 2015 by News Staff

If you’re tall, you’re also more likely to be slim, according to a team of scientists led by the University of Queensland. The new study suggests a...

Sep 8, 2015 by News Staff

The Basques are not direct descendants from hunter-gatherers of 10,000 years ago; instead, they have more recent genetic links to early Iberian farmers,...

Jul 23, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists, led by Dr Diana Hofmann of the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences in Jülich, Germany, has identified the missing ingredient that...

Jun 23, 2015 by News Staff

Genetic analysis of the mandible of an anatomically modern Homo sapiens who lived in what is now Romania between 42,000 and 37,000 years ago reveals that...

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...

May 19, 2015 by News Staff

A new study of the bones of hundreds of humans who lived during the past 33,000 years in Europe finds the rise of agriculture and a corresponding fall...