Their results reveal how Bantu-speaking peoples - which today account for one-third of sub-Saharan Africans - developed gene variations that helped them cope with malaria and lactose.

One of the biggest of these is known as the Bantu expansion. There are over a billion people in Africa, and nearly a quarter of them speak languages from the Bantu family. Bantu speakers occupy ...

Researchers have used genetic analysis to model the much-debated migration paths, and mingling patterns, of Bantu-speaking people as they disseminated across Africa. Their results reveal how Bantu ...

The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa's linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than 500 Bantu languages. It is generally ...

South Eastern Bantu-speakers have a clear linguistic division - they speak more than nine distinct languages - and their geography is clear: some of the groups are found more frequently in the ...

As Bantu-speaking people migrated across Africa, they acquired advantageous genetic mutations through admixture. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 5, 2017, issue of Science ...