A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has shaped modern human genomes far more than previously thought.

Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Each October, an expedition from the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) returns to Chicago House, their headquarters in Luxor, Egypt. Known as the Epigraphic ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

When imagining what archaeologists find during excavations of ancient human remains, we might think only of bones - dry, silent, and skeletal clues to our past. But under ideal conditions, internal ...