A sexually prolific group of Northern Eurasians roamed the ancient world, mating with everyone from the ancestors of Native Americans to Eastern Europeans, say Harvard researchers who suggest the findings should expand existing views of how modern man came to be.
The research, released today by the journal Nature, upends existing scientific wisdom that modern Europeans are the result of hunter-gatherers and indigenous farmers who bred exclusively among themselves, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston and Germany’s University of Tubingen.
The report suggests a third group, Eurasians who swept in from an area now part of northern Russia, spurred demographic changes across two continents, the scientists said. The study compared DNA in two Eurasian skeletons from that ancient period with DNA gathered from past archaeological finds in a range of countries, as well as DNA from 2,300 present-day people....MORE
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
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