Heterogeneity in Palaeolithic Population Continuity and Neolithic Expansion in North Africa.

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.050

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Heterogeneity in Palaeolithic Population Continuity and Neolithic Expansion in North Africa.

Current biology : CB - 18 Nov 2019

Serra-Vidal Gerard, Lucas-Sanchez Marcel, Fadhlaoui-Zid Karima, Bekada Asmahan, Zalloua Pierre, Comas David

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North Africa is located at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East, and the Sahara Desert. Extensive migrations and gene flow in the region have shaped many different cultures and ancestral genetic components through time [1-6]. DNA data from ancient Moroccan sites [7, 8] has recently shed some light to the population continuity-versus-replacement debate, i.e., the question of whether current...

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Africa South of the Sahara
Africa, Northern
Black People
Fossils
Gene Flow
Gene Pool
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Genome
Haplotypes
History, Ancient
Human Migration
Humans
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
White People

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PMID: 31679935
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.050

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