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The disappearing San of southeastern Africa

Carina Schlebusch and others investigated the faith of San populations in a new publication in Human Genetics (Schlebusch, C.M., Prins, F., Lombard, M. et al. The disappearing San of southeastern Africa and their genetic affinities. Hum Genet 135, 1365–1373 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-016-1729-8. Abstract Southern Africa was likely exclusively inhabited by San hunter-gatherers before ~2000 years ago. Around that time, East African groups assimilated…
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