Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland Two archaeological cultural complexes coexisted on Gotland for over 500 years, between ∼3300 and 2800 calBCE, i.e. the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (FBC), and the Pitted ware culture (PWC). The ance...

New #preprint from the #HumanEvolutionProgram team at #UppsalaUniversity: #Ancestry, #admixture, and #pathogens in contemporaneous #Neolithicfarmers and #foragers on the Island of #Gotland www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #genetics #archaeology

Ancient southern Africans took genetic evolution in a new direction An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

The story about #ancientsouthernafricans in the #ScienceNews now: www.sciencenews.org/article/anci... #media #humanevolutionprogram