Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent
14 July 2016
A team of archaeogeneticists sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously uncharacterised population that is neither ancestral to the first European farmers nor has contributed significantly to the ancestry of modern Europeans.
Ann Gibbons discusses the .
Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent
Farnaz Broushaki,ÌýMark G Thomas,ÌýVivian Link,Ìý,Ìý,ÌýKarola Kirsanow, Zuzana Hofmanová,Ìý,ÌýLara M. Cassidy,ÌýDavid DÃez-del-Molino,ÌýAthanasios Kousathanas,ÌýChristian Sell,ÌýHarry K. Robson,ÌýRui Martiniano,ÌýJens Blöcher,ÌýAmelie Scheu, Susanne Kreutzer,ÌýRuth Bollongino,ÌýDean Bobo,ÌýHossein Davudi,ÌýOlivia Munoz,ÌýMathias Currat,Kamyar Abdi,ÌýFereidoun Biglari,ÌýOliver E. Craig,ÌýDaniel G Bradley,ÌýStephen Shennan,ÌýKrishna R Veeramah,ÌýMarjan Mashkour,ÌýDaniel Wegmann,ÌýGarrett Hellenthal,ÌýJoachim Burger
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