to Human Diversity
Vairão, Portugal
Media
Our research has been covered by national and international media. Links to articles, podcasts, etc. can be found here.
Kwadi, uma língua em extinção.
Jorge Rocha talks about our work in Southwestern Angola, focusing on how we united genetics and linguistics to study human migrations in Africa (in Portuguese).
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19 October 2024
Kwadi: a lost language of Angola with a story to tell
An encounter with an old woman in the Angolan Namib Desert leads to the rediscovery of a lost language and unveils mysteries from the prehistory of southern Africa (also available in Portuguese).
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8 August 2024
The genetic diversity of Bantu-speaking populations helped to shape African history
Analysis of a massive genomic data set involving Jorge Rocha and Armando Semo reveals the profound effects that the movement of Bantu-speaking peoples had on Africa’s biological, linguistic and cultural landscape. These findings provide valuable insights for a wide range of disciplines and serve as a comprehensive data set of ancient and modern African individuals for comparative studies.
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29 November 2023
Uncovering Africa’s complex genetic legacy
An article talking about how our study published in Science Advances (2023) reveals that the Angolan Namib Desert population differs from other African populations as it carries genetic traces of extinct human groups.
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30 November 2023
Angolan Namib Desert population analysis uncovers new ancestry group with deep divergence.
With genetic profiles of hundreds of individuals from present-day populations in a desert region of southwestern Africa that spans Angola and Namibia, our team has retraced interactions between forager, pastoral, and farming populations, uncovering genetic remnants of a previously unidentified ancestral population.
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22 September 2023
Jorge Rocha talks about his work on languages and genes in São Tomé e Príncipe (in Portuguese).
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24 March 2012
Jorge Rocha - CIBIO - Genes and Languages in São Tomé e Príncipe