Discontinuities in hunter-gatherer prehistory in southern African drylands
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Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans.
Africa is inferred to be the continent of origin for all modern human populations, but the details of human prehistory and evolution in Africa remain largely obscure owing to the complex histories of hundreds of distinct populations. We present data for more than 580,000 SNPs for several hunter-gatherer populations: the Hadza and Sandawe of Tanzania, and the ≠Khomani Bushmen of South Africa, in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0278-4165
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2016.07.001