How does one legally establish Native American ancestry? Legal recognition as a tribal member varies depending on the Native American nation in which you seek enrollment. Native American communities ...

A long-held theory about the earliest migration to the Americas is under fresh scientific fire. For years, many believed that the First Peoples came from Japan, tracing their ancestry to the Jomon, a ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...