Sentences with phrase «single ancestral population»

Another team, analyzing DNA from present - day and ancient Americans, reports that Native Americans came from a single ancestral population.

However, other recent studies do confirm that all present - day non-African populations branched off from a single ancestral population in Africa approximately 60,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

These yeasts likely arose from a single ancestor, or from an inbred ancestral population.

«It doesn't mean that most Native American languages are related to each other, it just means that the populations that speak those languages descend from a single ancestral group,» says Reich.

«Regardless of whether scenario one or two is correct, there was a single population of ancestral Native Americans, and they at least migrated to an area where they were genetically isolated from ancestral East Asians and ancestral North Eurasians,» Potter said.

To do this, we assume a model in which the ancestral population of the single sample merges with the European tree at a particular branch at a particular time before the date of origin of the sample.