An Ancient Hibernation Switch Lives in Your DNA—And Scientists Are Tapping Into Its Power

Humans possess the genetic machinery that bears and bats use for hibernation, research has found. Is this the dawn of a new ...
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'Biological time capsules': How DNA from cave dirt is revealing clues about early humans and Neanderthals

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones ...
Nature

How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...
The New York Times

Humans Had Dogs Before They Had Farming, Ancient DNA Confirms

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...