[HN Gopher] Deep genetic structure of Africa reveals unique ance...
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       Deep genetic structure of Africa reveals unique ancestry of the
       Angolan Namib
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2023-09-23 01:42 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | acjohnson55 wrote:
       | > was able to interview what may well be the last two speakers of
       | Kwadi.
       | 
       | So much of the past has disappeared or is in the process of
       | disappearing.
        
         | whoisthemachine wrote:
         | Luckily there's always more of it!
        
         | FredPret wrote:
         | 'twas ever thus
        
         | gloryjulio wrote:
         | The entropy will get you eventually
        
       | suzzer99 wrote:
       | > Previous studies revealed that foragers from the Kalahari
       | desert descend from an ancestral population who was the first to
       | split from all other extant humans.
       | 
       | I'd be interested to know if they have a rough time frame for
       | when this happened. 100k years ago? 500k years ago? I assume the
       | neanderthals, denisovans and florensians were already around at
       | this point?
        
         | AbrahamParangi wrote:
         | I believe the Khoi-San split from other human populations
         | around 250kya. For context all populations outside of Africa
         | diverged less than 70kya and the Neanderthalis/Sapiens split
         | happened closer to 750kya.
        
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