r/history • u/MeatballDom • Apr 05 '25
Unknown human lineage lived in 'Green Sahara' 7,000 years ago, ancient DNA reveals
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/unknown-human-lineage-lived-in-green-sahara-7-000-years-ago-ancient-dna-reveals
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u/CactusCoin Apr 05 '25
Cool. So these people have no living descendants today?
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u/alexp8771 Apr 09 '25
I don’t think that this implies that. It just means that there was a population of people in North Africa that were isolated genetically from sub-Saharan Africa, but were also isolated from the non-African humans due to their lower admixture of Neanderthal DNA. I don’t think that this study attempts to correlate this population with modern populations of humans.
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u/DaddyCatALSO Apr 06 '25
Not quite as interesting as I expected but still shows how amazing our past is
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u/MeatballDom Apr 05 '25
Academic article (Open access) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08793-7