Women of Kenya’s Turkana community often walk miles each day in scorching heat to collect water for their animals and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of the Turkana in Kenya reveals genetic adaptations to desert survival—and how those same traits may pose health risks ...

Scientists discover a genetic adaptation in Kenya’s Turkana people that helps them survive drinking much less water without ...

The Great Rift Valley in northern Kenya is one of the world’s most important scientific landscapes. On the shores of Lake ...

Through a collaboration between U.S. and Kenyan researchers and Turkana communities of northern Kenya, scientists have uncovered key genetic adaptations underlying survival in hot and dry environments ...

Cornell researchers have contributed to a multi-institutional study of how the nomadic Turkana people of northern Kenya—who have lived for thousands of years in extreme desert conditions—evolved to ...

Google Doodle has reminded us that we are an evolution of the initial species that lived on Earth and that humans are from the "Homo Erectus" line. In 1984, researchers have found traces of skeleton ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

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President William Ruto has announced plans to establish the Home of Human Origins Museum and Science Park in Turkana County. He spoke during the Tobong'u Lore Festival in Lodwar on Friday, October 25.

In northern Kenya, where the ground is arid, the sun is hot, and water is a daily grind, the people have created a life that has endured for centuries. Their territory extends into Uganda, South Sudan ...