Lactase persistence alleles reveal ancestry of southern African Khoe pastoralists
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
In a new study a team of researchers lead from Uppsala University show how lactase persistence variants tell the story about the ancestry of the Khoe people in southern Africa. The team concludes that pastoralist practices were brought to southern Africa by a small group of migrants from eastern Africa. The study is published in Current Biology today.