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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday November 11 2017, @06:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-choose-your-family dept.

The genes don't lie:

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


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday November 11 2017, @08:15AM (5 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday November 11 2017, @08:15AM (#595530) Journal

    You don't see any 3-D people on the pots!

    Good point, khallow, good point. But who were the Anatolians before they moved to Anatolia? And what is the difference between a Turk and a Kurd?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @08:22AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @08:22AM (#595533)

    Who was any people if you go far enough back ?
    Your 'distinctions' are irrelevant

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @02:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @02:36PM (#595586)

    Pre-Anatolians.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday November 12 2017, @01:24AM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday November 12 2017, @01:24AM (#595812) Journal

    Hittites? Lydians? Lydians? Carians? Urartians?

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    • (Score: 2) by arulatas on Monday November 13 2017, @07:35PM

      by arulatas (3600) on Monday November 13 2017, @07:35PM (#596398)

      Splitters

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