April 26, 2024

Ancient DNA illuminates how humans travelled and interacted in Stone Age Africa

Nature, Published online: 23 February 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00479-8

Archaeologists have various hypotheses for how populations changed in Africa about 50,000 years ago, during the Later Stone Age transition. Now, the earliest available ancient-DNA sequences from sub-Saharan Africa reveal a complex Late Pleistocene population structure, pointing to large shifts in human movement and in patterns of social interaction.

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