ancient dna Archives

Natural selection has made Europeans lighter over past 5,000 years

Fossilized human feces from 14th century contain antibiotic resistance genes

Study suggests that Neandertals shared speech and language with modern humans

Modern dogs are more Asian fusions than Euro pups

Putting the dead to work for conservation biology

Conservation paleobiologists — scientists who use the fossil record to understand the evolutionary and ecological responses of present-day species to changes in their environment — are putting the dead to work.
A new review of the rese…