The Genetic Map of Europe
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By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: August 13, 2008
Biologists have constructed a genetic map of Europe showing the degree of relatedness between its various populations.
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Manfred Kayser, a geneticist at the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
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Europe has been colonized three times in the distant past, always from the south. Some 45,000 years ago the first modern humans entered Europe from the south. The glaciers returned around 20,000 years ago and the second colonization occurred about 17,000 years ago by people returning from southern refuges. The third invasion was that of farmers bringing the new agricultural technology from the Near East around 10,000 years ago.
.
.
.
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: August 13, 2008
Biologists have constructed a genetic map of Europe showing the degree of relatedness between its various populations.
.
.
.
Manfred Kayser, a geneticist at the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
.
.
.
Europe has been colonized three times in the distant past, always from the south. Some 45,000 years ago the first modern humans entered Europe from the south. The glaciers returned around 20,000 years ago and the second colonization occurred about 17,000 years ago by people returning from southern refuges. The third invasion was that of farmers bringing the new agricultural technology from the Near East around 10,000 years ago.
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