TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global service for genetic genealogy, announced today the release of AutoClusters, a new feature that automatically clusters and ...

Want to start the New Year with a little bit of perspective? Take a look at this beautiful interactive tree of life diagram created by Evogeneao, which enables you to see how all organisms on earth ...

These sorts of interactions very likely occurred between disparate human groups in our distant past. There’s strong evidence that separated groups of people, and even distinct species of humans, ...

(The Root) — An African-American family is at the center of a discovery that researchers say pushes back previous estimates of how deep the roots of the human family tree are. Analyzing DNA provided ...

GeneTree, a new genealogy site set to launch on Tuesday, adds a new twist to online family history searches by allowing users to submit their own DNA and to collaborate with others using social ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical in their DNA is hard to accept for some people, who can't comprehend how we could share so much of our basic genetic ...

Saber-tooth cats (Machairodontinae) and modern house cats (Felis catus) shared a common ancestor … 20 million years ago. Perhaps one of the best-recognized large mammals of the Pleistocene epoch, the ...

My first print article has been published by Significance, the statistics popularization magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association. Titled We come from one I ...

A groundbreaking DNA study has unveiled a hidden chapter in human evolution, revealing that all modern humans evolved from ...

A team of Duke researchers has identified a group of human DNA sequences driving changes in brain development, digestion and immunity that seem to have evolved rapidly after our family line split from ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

The genetic tweaks that make humans uniquely human may come in small parcels interspersed with DNA inherited from extinct ancestors and cousins. Only 1.5 percent to 7 percent of the collective human ...