A handful of Bronze-Age men could have fathered two thirds of Europeans

Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 06:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

For such a large and culturally diverse place, Europe has surprisingly little genetic variety. Learning how and when the modern gene-pool came together has been a long journey. But thanks to new technological advances a picture is slowly coming together of repeated colonisation by peoples from the east with more efficient lifestyles.

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