DNA Archive

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

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world's first nomadic empire—the Xiongnu—is, at last, coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans and the Neanderthals are long gone, but their DNA can be found in certain modern humans. According to researchers, some present-day

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When the human remains found on board the Swedish warship Vasa were investigated, it was initially determined that the skeleton designated "G" was

Conny Waters -  Ancientpages.com - Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ludwig van Beethoven's genome has been sequenced for the first time by an international team of scientists using five genetically matching locks of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest plateau above sea level, is one of the harshest environments settled by humans. It has a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com- The first signs of life emerged on Earth in the form of microbes about four billion years ago. While scientists are still determining

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. This linguistic diversity is passed on from one generation to the next, similarly to

Jan Bartek  - AncientPages.com - Based on previous archaeological studies, researchers know that the Old Kingdom of Egypt and the Akkadian Empire, both Bronze Age civilizations, experienced sudden

AncientPages.com - Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is the cradle of human origins and ingenuity,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - DNA is an essential component in the cells of all living organisms on this planet. It contains information that is critical for building

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new comprehensive study of ancient human remains taken from a cemetery at a site called the Links of Noltland has revealed surprises

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans: