The genetic legacy of the Yamnaya people continues to this day, the study authors note. Many people in Northwestern Europe can trace their lineage back to the Yamnaya, for instance, and the area ...

When a Bronze Age people called the Yamnaya moved into northwestern Europe, they carried gene variants that today are known to increase people’s risk of multiple sclerosis, researchers found.

Humans’ entry into Europe pushed earlier. People may have spread across the continent more than 40,000 years ago. ... Homo sapiens swiftly trekked from Mediterranean areas to northwestern Europe ...

When a Bronze Age people called the Yamnaya moved from the steppes of what are now Ukraine and Russia into northwestern Europe, ... DNA to about 400,000 present-day people stored in a U.K ...