“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

Prosecutors played a clip from “Jurassic Park” at a hearing in the case of the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Wednesday – in an unusual move to defend their DNA evidence. The scene from ...

Now, with the help of ancient DNA from mummified remains, geneticists are figuring out who once lived there. The Takarkori rock shelter — situated in southwestern Libya’s Tadrart Acacus ...

A new study suggests that severe trauma, like that experienced in war, can leave epigenetic “scars” on DNA that endures for generations. In the early 1980s, the Syrian regime carried out a ...

“It was a huge hole.” Working with researchers in Algeria and Tunisia, as well as Europe, Reich’s team sequenced DNA from the bones or teeth of 9 individuals from eastern Maghreb ...

a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment. By analyzing the DNA of two 7,000-year-old ...

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