“It was a huge hole.” Working with researchers in Algeria and Tunisia, as well as Europe, Reich’s team sequenced DNA from the bones or teeth of 9 individuals from eastern Maghreb ...

In the process any notion of European genetic purity has been swept away on a tide of powdered bone. Analysis of ancient genomes provides the equivalent of the personal DNA testing kits available ...

Here's an artist's impression of what that man might have looked like: The new genetic analysis was performed on DNA extracted from ... that the light skin of Europeans evolved much more recently ...

After a DNA analysis was conducted on the bones, researchers learned more about ancient human interbreeding. They discovered that the formation of the European genome is still found in Europeans ...