300,000-year old Homo sapiens genetic ancestry traced back to Southern African hunter-gatherers (IMAGE)

University of Johannesburg

300,000-year old Homo sapiens genetic ancestry traced back to Southern African hunter-gatherers

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Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa,  for whom a genome was reconstructed.

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Photo by Helena Malmström.

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