Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

The Earth's climate is in a constant state of change based on its position relative to the sun. This relationship means that ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...

Unlike the jungles of Antarctica, which froze away many millions of years ago, the Green Sahara was recent enough to host early humans. Every 21,000 years, the Sahara experiences a wet ...

DNA analysis from two naturally mummified individuals from Libya: More than 7,000 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period (Green Sahara), a long isolated human lineage existed in North ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara ...

During the African Humid Period, also known as the Green Sahara, this region was inhabited by a human lineage that remained largely isolated, without a direct genetic relationship to populations from ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...