パラレルレールな古生物学的な断層は,初期のヨーロッパの農民の複雑な遺伝的歴史を明らかにしています
Mark Lipson1, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy2, Swapan Mallick1,3
1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Nature
|November 17, 2017
まとめ
新石器時代のヨーロッパの人口は多様な遺伝的起源と地元の混合を示し,狩猟採集者の祖先は地域や時間によって異なります. 遺伝子の流れは文化的な移行の間に人口を大きく変容させ,複雑な人口動態を明らかにした.
科学分野:
- パレオゲノミクス
- 人口遺伝学
- ヨーロッパ史前史
背景:
- 新石器時代のヨーロッパの人口は主に狩猟採集者の混ざったアナトリア人移民の子孫であった.
- 新石器時代の集団の相互作用と混ざり合いの空間的および時間的動態に関する重要な疑問が残っています.
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