I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome separation during cell division. By studying related yeast species, ...

A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...