A new study tells the genetic history of the domestic horse over the last 5,000 years by using the largest genome collection ever generated for a non-human organism
A new study found that the genomics of yams supports West Africa (the Niger River Basin) as a major cradle of crop domestication
Researchers combining genetics, archaeology, history and linguistics have gained new insights into the history of inner Eurasia, once a cultural and genetic crossroads connecting Europe and Asia
During the Crusades, warriors travelled from western Europe to the near East, where they mixed and had families with local people, and died together in battle
New evidence also shows extra mixing between Papuans and one of the two Denisovan groups, suggesting that this group actually lived in New Guinea or its adjacent islands
A new study, published in PNAS, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalith tombs on Ireland and in Sweden
Sorghum, a cereal used to feed livestock and make alcohol has been damaged over the last 6000 years by humans, with a damage to genes and reduced varieties
A new study suggests that the genetic profiles of woolly mammoths and Neanderthals shared molecular characteristics of adaptation to cold environments
The origin of Crocus sativus (saffron) has long been the subject of speculation and research, as this knowledge would enable to introduce genetic diversity
The work, published in Nature, confirms a dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration
