Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

The genetic predisposition to suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) is closely linked to historical migration patterns, and to our ancestors’ lifestyles. Specifically, MS is linked to the genetic ...

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—According to a report in Nature News, a study of nuclear DNA from the remains of 69 individuals who lived across Europe between 8,000 and 3,000 years ago, and the genome data of ...

BERLIN (AP) – A wave of migrants from the eastern fringes of Europe some 4,500 years ago left their trace in the DNA – and possibly the languages – of modern Europeans, according to a new study.

Mykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the Dnieper river in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia’s war on its western neighbour. Seventy years ago it was the site of an ...