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DNA Study Ties Maryland’s First Colonists to 1.3 Million Living Relatives

Consumer DNA at massive scale let researchers connect ancient burials to living relatives.

Ancient Tooth Proteins Hint at Links Between Chinese Homo Erectus and Denisovans

Ancient DNA Review Finds Prehistoric Kinship Often Beyond Blood

Ancient DNA Confirms Dogs Lived With Humans 15,800 Years Ago

Ancient DNA Pushes Dog Domestication Back to the Late Ice Age

Ancient DNA Confirms Dogs in Eurasia 14,000–16,000 Years Ago

Ancient DNA Confirms Dogs Lived With Humans 15,800 Years Ago

Study Traces Live Amazonian Parrots Carried Across Andes to Pre-Inca Coast

Ancient DNA Study Traces Britain’s Bell Beaker Migrants to Rhine–Meuse Wetlands

5,500-Year-Old Colombian Skeleton Yields Oldest Treponema pallidum Genome

Ancient Colombian Skeleton Yields Oldest Genome of Syphilis-Related Bacterium

Wolf Pup’s Stomach Yields Woolly Rhino Genome, Pointing to Climate-Driven Collapse

Ancient Wolves Reached Baltic Island With Human Help, Study Finds

New DNA Study Finds Beachy Head Woman Was Local to Roman-Era Southern England

Ancient DNA Shows Housecats Originated in North Africa and Reached Europe Only 2,000 Years Ago

Ancient DNA Rewrites Cat Origins With Roman-Era Spread From North Africa

Nature Study Uncovers Enduring Ancient Lineage in Central Argentina

Dog Diversity Dates to 11,000 Years Ago, Science Studies Find

Nature Study Finds 8,500-Year-Old Ancestry in Central Argentina That Endures Today

DNA Study Finds Paratyphoid and Relapsing Fever in Napoleon’s 1812 Dead