Founder events in recent human history (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Founder events in recent human history

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From contemporary and ancient DNA, UC Berkeley researchers estimated when population bottlenecks occurred for several hundred groups around the world and throughout recent human history. The colors indicate the number of generations the bottleneck or founder event preceded the individuals whose DNA was sequenced.

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Rémi Tournebize, UC Berkeley

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