66 years after the discovery of the structure of DNA, a position statement by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists clarifies what it tells us about human variation.

The oldest known human DNA found yet reveals human evolution was even more confusing than thought, researchers say. The DNA, which dates back some 400,000 years, may belong to an unknown human ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

In her book The Lost Family, Libby Copeland explores the confusing landscape of DNA testing and lays out the limits of looking to your genes for answers.

The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed.

Denisovan-derived DNA shaped Indigenous American ancestry, helping early peoples adapt to new environments, foods, and ...

Human remains found in a wooded area five years ago have been identified as a man who had not been seen by his family for ...

Human DNA is littered with copies of these short retroviral genomes, many from viruses that caused diseases millions of years ago and that may no longer circulate.

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

Scientists know little about Denisovans, a now-extinct relative of humans. But a gene inherited from these hominins may have ...