Cassidy is expected to challenge RFK Jr. on his vaccine skepticism and views on public health in today's confirmation hearing ...

For millennia, couples have had to decide where to live. "For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties of ...

New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.

The cemetery was used from around 100 B.C. to 200 A.D. "That was really jaw-dropping — it's never been observed before in European prehistory," said study co-author Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at ...

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was centered around women, a study said.

Now, a team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Bournemouth University have discovered ...

"This points to an Iron Age society in Britain where women wielded quite a lot of influence and could shape its trajectory in ...

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

"This points to an Iron Age society in Britain where women wielded quite a lot of influence and could shape its trajectory in many ways," says Dr Lara Cassidy at Trinity College, Dublin ...