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First Ancient Genome Recovered from Mediterranean Area

posted by cmn32480 on Friday September 04 2015, @11:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-still-no-bigfoot dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

An international team of researchers has sequenced the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer, which is also the first ancient genome from the entire Mediterranean area. This new genome allows to know the distinctive genetic changes of Neolithic migration in Southern Europe which led to the abandonment of the hunter-gatherer way of life. The study is led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), in collaboration with the Centre for GeoGenetics in Denmark. The results are published in the Molecular Biology and Evolution journal.

The first farmers entering Europe about 8,000 years ago coming from the Near East spread through the continent following two different routes: one to Central Europe via the Danube, and the other towards the Iberian peninsula following the Mediterranean coast. These latter farmers developed their own cultural tradition: the Cardium Pottery, so-called due to a characteristic incised decoration made with the edges of bivalves shells belonging to the genus Cerastoderma (formerly Cardium).

DNA records are filling in a lot of gaps in the human saga, such as the recent discovery of Denisovans, the "Other Neanderthals."

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @11:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @11:28PM (#232462)

    sequenced the complete genome of a Neolithic woman

    proving the feminist mantra, anything you can do, a woman can do better.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @11:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @11:36PM (#232463)

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