The work of archeologists involves a daunting task: to determine the places and ways in which our ancient human ancestors lived based on an extremely limited amount of information. While historians ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

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Since 2012, geneticist David Reich and his team of researchers have been studying DNA from living and ancient people to probe mysteries surrounding the origins of human life. But the future of their ...

The geological time scale, established by scientists in the mid-19th century and agreed upon internationally, breaks down the eternity of our planet's history into more manageable units than years.

One day last fall, in the home freezer of Spencer Wells, there were these things: a large leg of lamb, a few quarts of milk, and underneath, DNA samples from 2,500 people in Central Asia. Wells is an ...