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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history

24 February 2022

A genealogy of humans constructed from thousands of genomes gives us clues about where our species first evolved and how we spread across the world

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