Sentences with phrase «common ancestral population»

Thanks to this new genome, researchers have been able to determine that farmers from the Mediterranean route and the inland route are very homogeneous and clearly derive from a common ancestral population that, most likely, is that of the first farmers who entered Europe through Anatolia.

Moeller is beginning to assemble a snapshot of the microbes in the guts of our ancient ape ancestor — in essence, a paleo gut that fit our paleo diet — and hopes to go even further back in time if, as seems likely, all mammals have evolved their unique microbiota from a common ancestral population in the distant past.

Not exact matches

The researchers discovered, however, that this is most probably not the case; they estimate that around 72» 000 years ago, an ancestral population common to Aborginal Australians, Europeans and East Asians left the African continent.

In the first model (Fig. 3B), the population including our ancient horses and their descendants first separated from common ancestors of domesticated horses and Przewalski's horses, and later admixed with the population ancestral to domesticated horses after it diverged from the Przewalski's horse population.