Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago

Science

Volumn 358, Issue 6363, 2017, Pages 652-655

  Schlebusch, Carina M ^a,d   Malmström, Helena ^a,d   Günther, Torsten ^a   Sjödin, Per ^a   Coutinho, Alexandra ^a   Edlund, Hanna ^a   Munters, Arielle R ^a   Vicente, Mário ^a   Steyn, Maryna ^b   Soodyall, Himla ^c   Lombard, Marlize ^d,e   Jakobsson, Mattias ^a,d,f  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^f SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; ANCIENT DNA;

ARCHAEOLOGY; DIVERGENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; GENOME; HUMAN EVOLUTION; IRON AGE; STONE AGE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; EAST AFRICAN; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; IRON AGE; KHOISAN; MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICAN; STONE AGE; Y CHROMOSOME HAPLOGROUP; BLACK PERSON; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; SOUTH AFRICA;

EURASIA; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, ANCIENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 85030570904     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aao6266     Document Type: Article

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