An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers

2019/09/05 by Vasant Shinde, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, Nadin Rohland +25 · 5 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Ancient DNA #Archaeology #Biology #Civilization #Demography #Domestication #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Forensic and Genetic Research #Gene #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetic genealogy #Genetics #Genome #Geography #Indus #Lineage (genetic) #Livestock #Out of africa #Paleoanthropology #Paleontology #Pastoralism #Population #Steppe #Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.048

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