That realization provided her with a strong focus and motivation when she arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 2005, where she pursued a Ph.D. with James Clifford and Donna Haraway, both distinguished ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marion Vinetta Nagle McWhorter, then 21, was last heard from when she called a relative from a pay phone near Washington Square Mall.

A Neanderthal skull on display at the Natural History Museum, London. Many modern humans have inherited around 1 to 2 percent of their DNA from Neanderthals and their close relatives, Denisovans. In ...