The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies transitioned from hunting and gathering to farming. This sparked migrations ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural exchange, not large-scale migration. Gazing at an image of the vast, ...

On April 27, researchers announced multiple breakthroughs spanning genetics, archaeology, and early human migration. A Harvard-led team analyzed nearly 16,000 ancient genomes, uncovering 479 gene ...

In 2015, a team of geneticists cracked open the genomes of 69 ancient Europeans and found something that upended centuries of ...

For generations, the movement of animals across Africa on seasonal migrations has been one of the best-known natural phenomena. Each year, thousands of animals move across the landscape, following the ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

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