A new study places the origin of the Imazighen in the Epipaleolithic, more than twenty thousand years ago. The research concludes that the genetic origin of the current Arab population of north Africa ...

Did it arise from local developments or through large-scale migration? Recent research in paleogenomics, published in Nature, ...

New genetic and archaeological evidence is reshaping the long-standing narrative of the Neolithic Revolution in North Africa.

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, arriving roughly 2000 years ago and not because of the Paleolithic expansion of Near East farmers. The findings ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to significantly expand scientists’ understanding of human genetic diversity. This ...

This scoping review followed guidelines recommended by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for scoping reviews. Published manuscripts from database ...

The common assumption that direct and prolonged exposure to sunlight, prevalent in desert regions, would naturally result in darker skin tones does not always hold true The key to understanding skin ...

New genetic research challenges the long-held single-origin theory of modern humans, suggesting Homo sapiens evolved from multiple interconnected African populations. The findings, based on genome ...