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The person you sat next to on the bus this morning is, on average, likely to be something like your sixth cousin.  But our mating patterns are changing.  Click here to read more in an article written by Steve Jones in The Telegraph.

Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new...

Scientists who decode the genetic history of humans by tracking how genes mutate have applied the same technique to one of the Western world's most ancient and celebrated texts to uncover the date it was first written.  Click here to read more in...

Yesterday Family Tree DNA sent the following announcement to project administrators:

It is with great satisfaction that we announce a permanent price change and other improvements that will positively impact your projects.

Prices:
Due to the recent...

Research from ScotlandsDNA, a new ancestry testing company, suggests that 10% of Scottish men are directly descended from the Picts, a tribe of fierce, enigmatic people who battled with Rome's legions before seeming to disappear from history.  Click...