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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage, study says
Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...
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We've Just Learned More About the Mysterious People of the Green Sahara
About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...
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Seven videos exploring the human and physical geography of the continent of Africa.
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50,000-year-old unknown human lineage yields genetic clues to Sahara’s earliest people
This significant discovery has illuminated the Sahara Desert in our quest to find our ... Africa suggests “a stable and isolated genetic population from at least 15,000 to 7,500 years ago.” ...
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Rare ancient DNA from Sahara opens a window on the region’s verdant past
Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that ... it originated from an ancestral North African population. This source, newly documented at ...
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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage
April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert ... Although the Takarkori population itself disappeared around 5,000 years ago when the African Humid Period ended and the desert returned, traces of their ...
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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage
The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most ... Although the Takarkori population itself disappeared around 5,000 years ago when the African Humid Period ended and the desert returned, traces of their ...