Post by UKarchaeology on Apr 3, 2016 20:59:28 GMT
The genetic history of Europe is mysterious because European populations have a complicated demographic DNA pool, DNA extracted from skulls of ancient human remains founded in Georgia , Will help us understand
This new lineage stems from populations of Caucasus hunter-gatherers that split from western hunter-gatherers shortly after the “out of Africa” expansion some 45,000 years ago.
The first-ever sequencing of ancient genomes extracted from human remains has revealed a previously unknown “fourth strand” of ancient European ancestry that eventually spread into south Asia, including India, a new study reported.
DNA from ancient remains from the Caucasus proves that a small but important portion of the European genome comes from a distinct population of hunter-gatherers who survived the ice age by sheltering for several thousand years in the Caucasus Mountains on the present day Russian-Georgian border, a study appearing in Nature Communications explains.
Full story: www.albanydailystar.com/science/ancient-of-european-dnas-discovered-in-georgia-scottsdale-tech-zone-10536.html