People in New Guinea Exhibit Great Genetic Diversity (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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People in New Guinea Exhibit Great Genetic Diversity (2 of 3)

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A typical village on the Sepik River, Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Bergström at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, "A Neolithic expansion, but strong genetic structure, in the independent history of New Guinea."

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Stephen J. Oppenheimer

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