An international research team has extracted genome-wide ancient DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummified women buried in a Libyan rock shelter, identifying a deeply divergent human lineage that appears ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

Methods for tracing lineage can be divided into two groups. Prospective methods trace lineage forwards from the application of an experimentally delivered marker, and retrospective methods trace ...