These beliefs were described by early missionaries as "ancestor worship". Ancestor worship among Africans refers to sanctified ancestors who have respected divine precepts; these are honored with ...

The team looked at both modern and ancient segments within the genomes of Yoruba people from Ibadan, Nigeria. They found more instances of genetic variation in the ancient segments than are seen ...

Until recently, the earliest human fossils from our own species discovered outside of Africa dated to around 90,000 to 120,000 years ago. Two cave sites in Israel—Qafzeh and Skhul—have yielded ...