DNA confirms modern Bo people are descendants of ancient Hanging Coffin culture

In a recent study, researcher Dr. Hui Zhou and his colleagues conducted a genetic analysis of the genomes of individuals ...
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DNA reveals cats in ancient China were a different species altogether

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period. Now, a ...
CNN

Where did house cats come from? Ancient DNA shakes up their origin story

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...
Science Daily

Insights into South African population history from 10,000-year-old human DNA

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...
Live Science

DNA has an expiration date. But proteins are revealing secrets about our ancient ancestors we never thought possible.

The moment a creature dies, its DNA begins to break down. Half of it degrades every 521 years on average. By about 6.8 million years, even under ideal preservation conditions in cold, stable ...
Smithsonian Magazine

With Ancient DNA, Scientists Have Mapped 37,000 Years of Disease Across Europe and Asia

A Late Neolithic skull. For the recent study, scientists extracted DNA from skulls and teeth to look for traces of diseases. Marie Louise Jørkov under CC BY-NC 3.0 From avian influenza to Zika virus, ...