A large international team of researchers has found that Neolithic hunter-gatherers living in several parts of Europe interbred with farmers from the Near East. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes comparing DNA from several early groups in Europe and evidence of interbreeding.
The Neolithic period, often described as the New Stone Age, was a period of human history from approximately 15,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE. It was a time defined by the development of settlements and the refinement of tools and the arts. Prior research has shown that people living in what is now Germany, Hungary and Spain were mostly hunter-gatherers during the early Neolithic period, but were "replaced" by farmers moving in from the Near East (Anatolia). In this new effort, the researchers suggest that interbreeding between the two groups led to the decline of the hunter-gatherers. The end result is that most modern Europeans are descended from the Near East immigrant farmers, but have remnants of hunter-gatherer DNA.
To learn more about the early history of humans in Europe, the researchers obtained and analyzed 180 DNA samples of people from early Hungary, Germany and Spain dating from between 6,000 and 2,200 BCE.
Ironic that Europeans resist admitting Turkey to the EU when they're descended from people from Asia Minor.
Mark Lipson et al. Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers, Nature (2017). DOI: 10.1038/nature24476
(Score: 2, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:18AM (6 children)
... there was a massive asteroid/comet impact catastrophe which destroyed a lost megalithic civilization, and which sent those "advanced" people out among the hunter-gatherers both to survive and to pass on some legacy of their technological achievements (e.g., farming).
The evidence is mounting. I encourage people to pursue this very interesting subject.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:13PM (4 children)
What is wrong with you people?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:45PM (3 children)
Probably the use of "advanced" makes you sound like a bitter flyover state person bitching about urban people. Why the quotes anyway?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:09PM (2 children)
Son, that is no way to live life. Relax.
The word "advanced" is in quotes, because if it weren't, you hair-triggered SJWs would assume it meant spaceship-flying demigods.
Seriously, you can't win anymore. Language has broken down, and it's now basically impossible to communicate effectively with anyone who isn't known to be part of one's immediately social circle.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:47PM (1 child)
But since it is, all us superior educated types know you are just an old-school racist white-supremacist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @09:05PM
Troll? What is wrong with you people?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @12:39PM
Stop playing Assassin's Creed and send some terse mails to Ubisoft.