DNA Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Despite the Roman Empire’s extensive military and cultural influence on the nearby Balkan peninsula, a DNA analysis of individuals who lived in the region

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new genetic study reveals indigenous Mexicans migrated to California 5,200 years ago. Researchers have found evidence hunter-gatherers who came from Mexico spread

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A research team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has identified the most widespread genetic contribution

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Contemporary humans carry in their cells a small amount of DNA derived from Neanderthals and Denisovans. “Denny,” a 90,000-year-old fossil individual, recently identified

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and the continent with the highest level of genetic diversity. While ancient DNA studies reveal some

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - According to a new genetic study, something strange happened to our ancestors about 900,000 years ago. Suddenly, the ancestral population of humans was

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, a group of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. Currently housed at the National

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early colonial settlers likely survived the harsh frontier conditions of 17th-century Delaware because they banded as family units to work alongside enslaved African

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral

AncientPages.com - Nomadic animal-herders from the Eurasian steppe mingled with Copper Age farmers in southeastern Europe centuries earlier than previously thought. In a new study published in Nature, researchers used

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Butterflies and moths share "blocks" of DNA dating back more than 200 million years, new research shows. Scientists from the Universities of Exeter

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How do today's Indigenous communities of South America trace back to the history of human migration and contact in the continent? Graphical abstract.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of our species is a fascinating and complicated subject. Scientists often discuss our long-gone relatives, the Neanderthals, and some studies attempt

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But many uncertainties remain, and competing theories about where, when, and how. An

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - Scientists have used mitochondrial DNA to trace a female lineage from northern coastal China to the Americas. By integrating contemporary and ancient mitochondrial

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of Paleolithic microorganisms. In a new study published in Science,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering land bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made