A genetic match to an ancient person doesn't mean you're more related genealogically. Mark Edward Atkinson/Tetra Images via Getty Images We are population geneticists who work with ancient DNA. We ...
Margaret Seidler didn’t put much stock in the DNA test she took in 2012. “Somebody pestered me to do it,” says the Charleston, South Carolina, native. “It was kind of a new thing to do. And to me, it ...
Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first ...