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 ...

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 ...