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Khoisan hunter-gatherers have been the largest population throughout most of modern-human demographic history.

Nature communications - 4 Dec 2014

Kim Hie Lim, Ratan Aakrosh, Perry George H, Montenegro Alvaro, Miller Webb, Schuster Stephan C

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The Khoisan people from Southern Africa maintained ancient lifestyles as hunter-gatherers or pastoralists up to modern times, though little else is known about their early history. Here we infer early demographic histories of modern humans using whole-genome sequences of five Khoisan individuals and one Bantu speaker. Comparison with a 420 K SNP data set from worldwide individuals demonstrates that two of the...

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PMID: 25471224
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6692
PMCID: PMC4268704

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