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Unraveling Deep Population Structure in Africa.

Part 1: Deconstructing ideas of an Insular Middle East. Overview: See below for detailed breakdown. With Africa being the cradle of mankind it is home to over 3,000 ethnic groups with a great degree of diversity. But such diversity isn’t merely ontological, but biological as it’s been shown that the genetic diversity on the continent […]

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Takarkori Study Released. Were they Irrelevant after all?

In a shocking twist of archaeological fate, researchers discovered that ancient Libyan women had about as much Sub-Saharan ancestry as a cat has an affinity for water—minimal! While they dodged direct lineage claims, it turns out they might still be the ancestors of some modern Sahelian populations. Just your average genetic plot twist!

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Ancient Saharan DNA: As predicted. ~A Short Summary.

The upcoming study titled “Genome-wide ancient DNA data from two 7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori Rockshelter in Libya, and Archaic admixture capture data from seven 15,000-year-old individuals from Taforalt Cave, Morocco.” teased the affinities of Saharan samples discovered at Takarkori rock shelter of modern day southern Libya. Mentioned before in a previous post of ours, ancient

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