Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa
Ke Wang et al. ,Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa.Sci. Adv.6,eaaz0183(2020).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aaz0183 Tl;dr Eastern Africa received admixture from North African/Levantine-related groups during the Neolithic Individuals from the Pastoral Neolithic Tanzania and Kenya had 30-40% of that North African/Levantine component The authors used group of Levantine individuals " as the closest available proxy for ancient northeastern African ancestry " This ancestry " likely reflects a gene pool present more broadly in ancient northeastern Africa and the Levant, as identified in ancient ( 11 , 20 ) and present-day northeastern African populations " The East and Northeast African components were diluted by later Nilotic and Bantu admixture and/or replacement "some regions or locations witnessing almost complete replacement from Nilotic-related migrations" Ancestry related to present...