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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."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jbWolf on Saturday September 05 2015, @02:52PM
As you and I have lamented before -- not enough people do that. It is one of our greatest problems today.
I've found that 10 years after-the-fact is when a group of people begin to forget something huge. 20 years is when a significant section of the group will forget. And if "forget" is not the right word, then it's a loss-of-impact. Look at 9/11. It's been 14 years. That means 9/11 probably has very little impact on a current 20 year old. Pearl Harbor will never mean to me what it meant to my grandfather. But 9/11 means a hell of lot. 9/11 won't matter to my goddaughter, though. She was a new born when it happened. Asimov? Died in 1992 -- 23 years ago. The average 30 year old will probably not have read any of his works.
Damn. Now, I'm feeling old. Maybe you and I should grab our canes, go out on the back porch, and talk about what all those young whippersnappers don't know but should. :P
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