It appears that gene flow between North African and sub-Saharan individuals was limited, despite the Sahara’s greening, which contradicts previous hypotheses. The Takarkori women also demonstrated a ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

This genetic isolation, the authors of the study reasoned, suggested the region likely wasn’t a migration corridor that linked sub-Saharan Africa to ... with another. “DNA extracted from ...

DNA analysis of the mummies ... did not show the expected Sub-Saharan genes. The Takarkori individuals are most closely related to other North African peoples who diverged from Sub-Saharan ...