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Indigenous peoples in eastern Brazil: insights from 19 <sup>th</sup> century genomes and metagenomes
2022-01-31
Abstract excerpt
Although Brazil was inhabited by more than 3,000 Indigenous populations prior to European colonization, today’s Indigenous peoples represent less than 1% of Brazil’s census population. Some of the decimated communities belonged to the so-called “Botocudos” from central-eastern Brazil. These peoples are thought to represent a case of long-standing genetic continuity bearing a strong craniometric resemblance to that...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 27ee0505-fefd-5b23-998c-60eae74346ab
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.01.27.477466