Thursday, 15 March 2018

Scientists discover genomic ancestry of Stone Age North Africans from Morocco

(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) An international team of researchers have sequenced DNA from individuals from Morocco dating to approximately 15,000 years ago. This is the oldest nuclear DNA from Africa ever successfully analyzed. The study, published in Science, shows that the individuals, dating to the Late Stone Age, had a genetic heritage that was in part similar to ancient Levantine Natufians and an uncharacterized sub-Saharan African lineage to which modern West Africans are genetically closest.

from EurekAlert! - Archaeology http://ift.tt/2IsH3l3

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