Biology
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8.0KScientists analyze first ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia
The first whole-genome analyses of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia reveal that there were at least three major waves of human...
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4.6KWhat we inherited from our bug-eating ancestors
People who advocate adding insects to the human diet may be channeling their distant ancestors.
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4.7KA European origin for leprosy?
New research by an international team including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the University of...
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5.8KStone Age hepatitis B virus decoded
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University...
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6.5KAncient quids reveal clues about genetic ancestry of early Great Basin inhabitants
If you want to know about your ancestors today, you can send a little saliva to a company where - for a...
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4.6KAncient origins of viruses discovered
Research published today in Nature has found that many of the viruses infecting us today have ancient evolutionary histories that date back to the...
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5.5KTracking the spread of early hunter-gatherers through language
Scientists have further evidence that an ancient family of languages spread over most of the Australian continent in the last 6000 years,...
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8.7KGenetic prehistory of Iberia differs from central and northern Europe
In a multidisciplinary study published in PNAS, an international team of researchers combined archaeological, genetic and stable isotope data to encapsulate 4000 years...
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11.1KANU research reveals genetic timeline of early Pacific settlers
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have helped put together the most comprehensive study ever conducted into the origins of people...
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7.9KNew research sheds light on prehistoric human migration in europe
Two University of Wyoming researchers contributed to a new study in which DNA of ancient skeletal remains of people from southeastern Europe...
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11.3KAncient DNA tells tales of humans’ migrant history
Scientists once could reconstruct humanity's distant past only from the mute testimony of ancient settlements, bones, and artefacts.
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Study identifies traces of indigenous ‘Taíno’ in present-day Caribbean populations
A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called "Taíno", the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European...
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5.8KInterdisciplinary approach yields new insights into human evolution
The evolution of human biology should be considered part and parcel with the evolution of humanity itself, proposes Nicole Creanza, assistant professor...
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13.3KScandinavians shaped by several waves of immigration
So you think people in present-day Sweden and Norway are different from each other? It turns out that would have been closer...
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13.6KPossible cause of early colonial-era Mexican epidemic identified
An international team, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Harvard University and the...
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8.6KMultiple migration routes made ‘melting pot’ of first Scandinavians
A study on the genomic data of early settlers in Scandinavian peninsula suggests two distinct routes of migration.
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12.2KDNA analysis of ancient mummy, thought to have smallpox, points to Hepatitis B instead
A team of scientists has sequenced the complete genome of an ancient strain of the Hepatitis B virus (HBV), shedding new light...
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11.3KAncient Native American population discovered through DNA
DNA studies on the ancient remains of an infant discovered in Alaska has revealed a new group of native population previously unknown...
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