Ancient Ethiopian man's genome illuminates ancestry of Africans
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 15:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DNA extracted from the skull of a man buried 4,500 years ago in an Ethiopian cave is providing new clarity on the ancestry of modern Africans as well as shedding light on an influx of people from the ancient Middle East into the Horn of Africa.