Who are the Japanese? Huge DNA discovery rewrites history

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For decades, scientists believed the Japanese population largely descended from two ancient groups: the Jomon hunter-gatherers who lived in the archipelago for thousands of years, and later migrants from East Asia who brought rice farming and new technologies to Japan.

But a major genetic analysis from researchers at RIKEN's Center for Integrative Medical Sciences suggests the picture is far more complicated.

Using whole-genome sequencing on more than 3...

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