Explore this timeline to see ... into how wrong many of history's great thinkers were, here's what we know now. A sperm cell and an egg cell each contain half the DNA to make a person.

The Milestones are a series of specially written articles and commentaries, which highlight the most influential discoveries in the field of DNA over ... a chronological timeline — the first ...

In the first of a two-part special, Adam Rutherford and UCL geneticist Lucy van Dorp explore the last 50-100 thousand years of human evolutionary history, visible in our DNA. Show more Our genomes ...

Burials at Mount Hora in Malawi yielded DNA used in the study DNA from ancient remains has been used to reconstruct thousands of years of population history in Africa. Researchers sequenced the ...