Ancient Genomes Shed Light on Divergence in Human Populations (IMAGE)

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Ancient Genomes Shed Light on Divergence in Human Populations

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Dr. Helena Malmström conducting on-site samples of bone material in a mobile sampling lab. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 28 2017, online issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Schlebusch at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, and colleagues was titled, 'Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago.'

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Mattias Jakobsson

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