The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far smaller than it really is.

Two Research Associate posts are available in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge to develop advanced deep learning approaches for population genomics and biodiversity forecasting...

A Research Associate post is available in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge to develop advanced large language model (LLM) approaches for biodiversity forecasting as part of a m...

Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.

Malaria has shaped human habitat choice, exchange, and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa.

Malaria has shaped human habitat choice, exchange, and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa.

Malaria has shaped human habitat choice, exchange, and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa.

Malaria has shaped human habitat choice, exchange, and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa.

What did the face of our ancestors looks like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed skull of “Little Foot” which provides valuable insights into how our ancestors adapted to their environment.

Sex biases in admixture and other demographic processes are recurrent features throughout human evolution. For admixture between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs), sex bias has been p...

The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

For our next HAAM-Radio webinar scheduled for the 28th of January (times tbh), we're looking for young career researchers (Master's and PhD students as well as Early Postdoctoral Researchers) speciali...

Study methods in population genomics have been profoundly reshaped in the last few years, fostered by the rapid growth of DNA sequence production and sharing. This unprecedented opportunity has led t…

The findings of a new study about communication between birds also offer key insights into the origins of language.

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Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...

The distribution of early human settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa might have been influenced by avoidance of mosquitoes that spread malaria

Background Population structure analysis is crucial for evolutionary research and medical genomics. Clustering methods, broadly categorized as model-based (e.g. ADMIXTURE) or non-model-based (e.g. SCO...

Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggest that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.

One of the most influential hypotheses about primate evolution postulates that their origin, radiation, and major dispersals were associated with e...

Soft corals (order Alcyonacea) are an important component of tropical coral reefs, and often form locally abundance dense carpets. Some soft coral species are prone to bleaching and heat stress like s...

During the last c. 20,000 years, African climates experienced temperature shifts related to the last period of global deglaciation and moisture availa…

During the last c. 20,000 years, African climates experienced temperature shifts related to the last period of global deglaciation and moisture availa…

Molecules from 20-million-year-old teeth are among the oldest ever sequenced.

Protein sequences from fossil tooth enamel of a rhinocerotid from Canada’s High Arctic are used to develop phylogenetic frameworks from a specimen too old to preserve ancient DNA.