Homo Sapiens

Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes, published in Nature

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04/12/2025

Mattias Jakobsson and Carina Schlebusch are two co-authors of the study on ancient South Africans that was just published. Abstract Homo sapiens evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago in Africa, later spreading across the globe, but the early evolutionary process is debated. Here we present whole-genome sequencing data for 28 ancient southern African individuals, including…
Read more →: Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes, published in Nature