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Evidence for a Common Origin of Blacksmiths and Cultivators in the Ethiopian Ari within the Last 4500 Years: Lessons for Clustering-Based Inference.
PLoS genetics - 1 Aug 2015
van Dorp Lucy, Balding David, Myers Simon, Pagani Luca, Tyler-Smith Chris, Bekele Endashaw, Tarekegn Ayele, Thomas Mark G, Bradman Neil, Hellenthal Garrett
Abstract excerpt
The Ari peoples of Ethiopia are comprised of different occupational groups that can be distinguished genetically, with Ari Cultivators and the socially marginalised Ari Blacksmiths recently shown to have a similar level of genetic differentiation between them (FST ≈ 0.023 - 0.04) as that observed among multiple ethnic groups sampled throughout Ethiopia. Anthropologists have proposed two competing theories to...
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