A sweeping genetic analysis is challenging one of the simplest versions of the human origin story: the idea that all modern humans arose from a single ancestral population in Africa. Instead, the research points to a more intricate beginning, with early human groups spread across Africa, mixing for long stretches of time before some of their differences became visible in the DNA of people living today.
The study, published in Nature in 2023, compared ...

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