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 ...

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.

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 ...