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Stories that ancient African DNA tells

Published online 8 October 2017

Highlighting the first large-scale research into prehistoric human DNA from sub-Saharan Africa.

Pakinam Amer

How did populations in Africa get to where they are today? 

We try to answer this question in light of a new study that gives us a glimpse into how sub-Saharan Africans lived and moved across the continent some 8,000 years ago. 

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doi:10.1038/nmiddleeast.2017.145