One of the distinctive features of the human taste system is that it categorizes food into a few
taste qualities–eg, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. Here, I examined the functional …

Africa is the origin of anatomically modern humans and a continent of linguistic, cultural,
environmental, phenotypic, and genetic diversity. However, African populations remain …

The KhoeSan populations are the earliest known indigenous inhabitants of southern Africa.
The relatively recent expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralists, as well as European …

A growing body of work has addressed human adaptations to diverse environments using
genomic data, but few studies have connected putatively selected alleles to phenotypes …

The alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) family of genes encodes enzymes that catalyze the
metabolism of ethanol into acetaldehyde. Nucleotide variation in ADH genes can affect the …

The population history of the Sahara/Sahelian belt is understudied, despite previous work
highlighting complex dynamics. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 The Sahelian Fulani, ie, the largest …

One of the longest-standing debates in African archaeology concerns the introduction of
herding to southern Africa and the resulting associated cultural changes. Two short books …

The degree of concordance between populations in the genetic architecture of a given trait
is an important issue in medical and evolutionary genetics. Here, we address this problem …

For most mammals and humans, production of the intestinal enzyme lactase is a life-history
trait that corresponds roughly to the duration of nursing. However, some human populations …

The combined use of linguistic, genetic and archaeological studies for establishing
migration models is common in southern African research on pastoralism. According to …