Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree ... using more sensitive DNA markers (Templeton, 1997).

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

The Evolution Lab contains two main parts: Build A Tree: Students ... evidence of evolution, DNA and genetics, biogeography, applications of phylogeny to health, and human evolution.

As she worked at her computer, the results revealed the sample she was examining contained human DNA. There was nothing so unusual about that in itself: at the time, the ancient DNA (aDNA ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

This created a family tree with older changes appearing ... While the new project will analyse the DNA of over 1,000 ancient human remains from the past four and a half millenia, it is this ...

but the use of ancient DNA can help to overcome some of these challenges and help us to understand the origins and legacy of human journeys to the region stretching back tens of thousands of years." ...