Snail genetic tracks reveal ancient human migration: Mesolithic humans may have carried snail species from France to Ireland

Some snails in Ireland and the Pyrenees are genetically almost identical, perhaps because they were carried across the Atlantic during an 8000-year-old human migration. The snail genetics tie in with studies of human genetics and the colonization of Ireland, according to new research.



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