Geneticists Rediscover African Population Once Assumed to Have Died Out
Genetic analysis of a recently-analyzed population in Africa demonstrates genetic links may remain even as languages are lost.
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Genetic analysis of a recently-analyzed population in Africa demonstrates genetic links may remain even as languages are lost.
Scientists have found a population of people in Africa‘s Namib desert that were believed to have disappeared 50 years ago. Anthropologists initially believed that the community disappeared when the languages spoken in the region died out. However, experts are now realizing that this group kept its genetic identity when their native language disappeared.
A research team was able to locate human populations in an African desert believed to have disappeared more than 50 years ago.
Over the past half-decade, ancient DNA research has revealed some surprising aspects to our evolutionary history during the past 50,000 years.
Dang Liu, Albert Min-Shan Ko and Mark Stoneking collected genome-wide data from 55 individuals from seven Taiwanese Austronesian groups and two Han-Taiwanese groups to study the genetic structure of Taiwan, the point of origin for all Austronesian-speaking peoples.