Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives

National Institute of Research and Innovation (NIRI) - the leading drug discovery centre in the Baltic countries is offering One permanent position of PostDoc of Metabolic Research Group.

Around 6700 BP (years before present), Neolithic Europe saw the emergence of megalithic monuments in northern France, followed by a rapid spread to the rest of the continent1. However, whether this wa...

There is a wealth of knowledge to be found in the DNA of our nation’s spectacular wildlife. A team of researchers co-led by Arizona State University will create a national resource to sequence and ana...

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

Since the beginning of excavations at Göbeklitepe, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) site in southeastern Türkiye, fragmented human bones have been recovered from the fill of the special (monumental) buil...

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

RAxML-NG is a widely used tool for maximum likelihood based phylogenetic inference. In the seven years since the last RAxML-NG publication, we have continuously improved and extended the code. Here, w...

Ancient DNA and new inference methods have transformed the study of human origins, but consensus has not followed. Evidence increasingly indicates that hominin populations were pervasively structured ...

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

Genotype imputation enables accurate detection of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry in low-coverage ancient genomes and allows the identification of introgressed haplotypes as well as candidate genes...

Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...

A dynamic atlas of gene regulation was generated by perturbing every expressed gene across 22 million primary human CD4+ T cells under resting conditions and following re-stimulation. The resulting ma...

Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you wil...

Scientific Reports - Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain

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Here, we present an overview of how archaeogenomic data can be used to investigate past mobilities and how it can be integrated with archaeological research to reconstruct models of human mobility at ...

DNA sequences derived from ancient samples provide insights into human history, paleoenvironments, and evolutionary biology. Advances in laboratory techniques and computational tools have established ...

arXiv has updated our endorsement policy. As of January 21, 2026, arXiv will no longer accept institutional email addresses (i.e., an email address associated with an academic or research instituti…

Writing protohistory – the narrative of times and places that don’t have a written history of their own, but are...

and some very useful numbers about human genomes to get you started!

Summary Ancient DNA studies are increasingly targeting samples that are beyond the limit of radiocarbon dating (>50 thousand years old) and are often difficult or impossible to date using other geochr...