Nature
Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes.
Mattias Jakobsson, Carolina Bernhardsson, James McKenna, Nina Hollfelder, Mario Vicente, Hanna Edlund, Alexandra Coutinho, Per Sjödin, James Brink, Bernhard Zipfel, Helena Malmström, Marlize Lombard, Carina M Schlebusch
Published: 202510.1038/s41586-025-09811-4
Abstract
Homo sapiens evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago in Africa, later spreading across the globe1, but the early evolutionary process is debated2-6. Here we present whole-genome sequencing data for 28 ancient southern African individuals, includin…
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