The International conference: “Africa, the cradle of human diversity” will take place on May 22nd-25th 2019 at Uppsala University (Sweden). The conference will assemble 30 leading researchers from different fields to present and discuss state-of-the-art approaches to address long-standing questions about past and present human diversity in Africa. These questions include modern human origins in Africa, the history of farming expansions, admixture patterns, adaptation to new environments and cultural transitions. Further, the conference will feature keynote lectures from Marlize Lombard (University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa) and Lluis Quintana-Murci (Institute Pasteur, Paris, France).