Despite their diversity, pygmies of Western Central Africa share recent common ancestors

Friday, February 6, 2009 - 07:42 in Biology & Nature

Despite the great cultural, physical, and genetic diversity found amongst the numerous West Central African human populations that are collectively designated as 'Pygmies,' a report published online on 5th February in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, finds that they diverged from a single ancestral population just about 2,800 years ago...

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