The genetic origins and evolutionary adaptations of Tibetans have long intrigued researchers. Previously, scientists had ...

A 7,100-year-old skeleton in the Yunnan province of China has revealed a lost human lineage linked to modern Tibetans.

DNA analysis reveals progenitor of Tibetan Plateau populations diverged from other Asian populations at least 40,000 years ...

The people of the Tibetan Plateau, an area also known as the Xizang Autonomous Region by the Chinese government and under the control of China, have what archaeologists have called a “ghost ancestry,” ...

an archaeological site in central Yunnan is one of the origins of populations on the Tibetan Plateau. “This study not only fills a critical gap in the genetic data of prehistoric populations in ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists in China have found traces of the origins of the “ghost ancestors” of modern Tibetans to ...

Tibetan people carry genes from northern East Asians but also from an unknown group – the “ghost” population – which some ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

Newly discovered prehistoric genomes from Southwest China's Yunnan province have unveiled links to population groups in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, South Asia and Southeast Asia, according to a ...

Yunnan's rich biodiversity resources provide a critical foundation for national biological and ecological security, as well ...

Chinese scientists have made groundbreaking discoveries about East Asia's ancient populations by analyzing DNA from 127 ...