Two Genetic Stories of Human Migration into Iceland and the Americas (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Two Genetic Stories of Human Migration into Iceland and the Americas (1 of 1)

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Skeletal remains of an ancient pre-Christian (<1000 C.E.) Icelandic female. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 1 June 2018 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.S. Ebenesersdóttir at deCODE Genetics/AMGEN, Inc. in Reykjavik, Iceland, and colleagues was titled, "Ancient genomes from Iceland reveal the making of a human population."

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Ivar Brynjolfsson / The National Museum of Iceland

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