US EditionUnknown Human Lineage Discovered at the Crossroads of the Americas
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Unknown Human Lineage Discovered at the Crossroads of the Americas
A previously unknown population has been identified in Colombia’s Altiplano, revealing a genetic lineage distinct from any other in the Americas. Credit: Petruss / CC BY-SA 3.0 An ancient and previously unknown population has been identified in the highlands of Colombia, revealing a genetic lineage unlike any other in the Americas. The study, published this week in Science Advances, analyzed ancient DNA from 21 individuals who lived in the Altip…
People settled in South America from the north. In the territory of today's Colombia, the first hunters and collectors entered the continent to spread further from there. Genetic evidence of an previously unknown early population was now found by an international research team of the University of Tübingen, the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment and the Universidad Nacional [...] The post Colombia's early hunters and co…
A team of scientists analyzed the DNA of human remains of about 6,000 years old found in Colombia. The results have been published in Science Advances magazine and show that in the region of the Cundiboyacense Altiplano, near Bogotá, human groups arrived in the past that completely replaced the original inhabitants. [...]
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