To outsiders, India seems like a homogeneous monolith. Proof? Ask Indians how many times they have been questioned, "Do you speak Indian?" Far from this myth, India is home to hundreds of languages, ...

For the first time in the world, BSIP and ZSI are attempting to sequence the whole nuclear genome of this extinct Indian big cat.

John Johnson, a leading scholar of Chumash Indian culture and head of the anthropology department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, joins Larry Mantle to talk about his DNA studies which ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Saturday revealed a personal connection to India during his state visit, sharing that a recent genetic test showed he has Indian DNA. “A few weeks ago, I had ...

The largest ever genome study of South Asian people has discovered a wide range of Neanderthal DNA sequences in modern Indian people. The findings raise the possibility of building a full Neanderthal ...

NEW YORK — Nearly all of today's American Indians in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study ...