In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only in bones, but in the dirt beneath their feet. By treating cave sediments ...

A virus that infects nearly all children early in life has, in rare cases, been present within human DNA for thousands of ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...