The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Ancient DNA dating to between 16,000–18,000 years ago—the oldest human DNA to be extracted in Africa so far—reveals that populations of hunter-gatherers mixed and ...

Using novel research techniques, we found evidence that our Late Stone Age hunter-gatherer ancestors in north Africa had a ...

Today only a handful of scattered peoples—some in the Amazon, a couple in the Arctic, a few in Papua New Guinea, and a tiny number of African groups—maintain a primarily hunter-gatherer existence.

Their current attitudes to gorillas and chimpanzees, both CITES-protected species, seem to confirm western stereotypes of Pygmy hunter–gatherers living in tune with their environment and caring for it ...

Community-run conservancies in Africa are emerging as a successful alternative to national parks for wildlife conservation.

A recent study published by Dr. Shirad Galmor and colleagues in Environmental Archaeology examined the role played by foxes ...

The natural human preference to live with or near kin is particularly strong among hunter-gatherers, but gender equality may allow these communities to include large percentages of genetically ...

Cordain says anthropological nutritionists such as himself have studied the few isolated hunter-gatherer societies – such as the Nanamiut of Alaska, the Aborigines of Australia and the !Kung of Africa ...