Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/18/sequencing-an-ancient-girls.html
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From the paper:
Analysis of the human reads revealed that the individual whose genome we recovered was female and that she likely had dark skin, dark brown hair and blue eyes. This combination of physical traits has been previously noted in other European hunter-gatherers19,20,21,22, suggesting that this phenotype was widespread in Mesolithic Europe and that the adaptive spread of light skin pigmentation in European populations only occurred later in prehistory23.
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Fascinating and wonderful.
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By gum! Science is wonderful!
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Epstein-Barr did not kill itself
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I wouldn’t have thought a sequenced genome would be a reliable indicator for traits like that.
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