Southern Africa is consistently placed as a potential region for the evolution of Homo sapiens.
We present genome sequences, up to 13x coverage, from seven ancient individuals from …

The history of click-speaking Khoe-San, and African populations in general, remains poorly
understood. We genotyped ∼2.3 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 220 southern …

When modern humans left Africa ca. 60,000 years ago (60 kya), they were already infected
with Helicobacter pylori, and these bacteria have subsequently diversified in parallel with …

Adaptation drives genomic changes; however, evidence of specific adaptations in humans
remains limited. We found that inhabitants of the northern Argentinean Andes, an arid region …

The ability to digest milk into adulthood, lactase persistence (LP), as well as specific genetic
variants associated with LP, is heterogeneously distributed in global populations [1–4]. …

In the last three decades, genetic studies have played an increasingly important role in
exploring human history. They have helped to conclusively establish that anatomically modern …

The southern African indigenous Khoe-San populations harbor the most divergent lineages
of all living peoples. Exploring their genomes is key to understanding deep human history. …

South Eastern Bantu-speaking (SEB) groups constitute more than 80% of the population in
South Africa. Despite clear linguistic and geographic diversity, the genetic differences …

Background The current San and Khoe populations are remnant groups of a much larger
and widely dispersed population of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, who had exclusive …

The present-day distribution of Bantu languages is commonly thought to reflect the early
stages of the Bantu Expansion, the greatest migration event in African prehistory. Using 1149 …