New clues for African origins?
- anthropocuriousehu
- 26 nov 2015
- 1 Min. de lectura
In 2012 some anthropologists discovered a 4500 year old skeleton in Ethiopia. They named it Mota because that was the name of the cave. The individual was a hunter-gatherer. That was the first African genome to be sequenced, due to the hot and damp climate which inhibits the preservation of useful remains. Mota's petrous bone of the inner ear has made it possible. The University of Cambridge has sequenced the genome and compared to other individuals in Africa, Europe and Asia. Motas seems to be more related with an ethnic group from the Ethiopian highlands.This DNA also closely matches to a prehistoric farme who lived in Germany, what makes scientists suggest that some descendants of the first farmers of Europe-settled in 8.000 years ago migrated into Africa.

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