The Fulani people are Africa's largest pastoralist group. There are between 25 million and 40 million Fulani people across 17 ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

A new study from Cambridge genetic researchers is unraveling everything we thought we knew about human evolution.

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

Researchers developed an algorithm that maps human genetic diversity and ancestry to better understand population history.

Sequencing the human genome enables scientists to study human biology in a granular fashion and use that information to create treatments for things like cancer. Yet, of the human genomes studied so ...