Geneticists have detected a fourth ancestral “tribe” which contributed to the modern European gene pool. Research shows Europeans are a mixture of three major ancestral populations – indigenous hunters, Middle Eastern farmers and a population that arrived from the east in the Bronze Age. DNA from ancient remains in the Caucasus has now revealed a fourth population that fed into the mix. Details are published in Nature Communications.
Europe’s fourth ancestral ‘tribe’ uncovered
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