Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...
Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...
Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...
Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...
An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.
Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...
Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...
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In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...