Ancient human DNA: How sequencing the genome of a boy from Ballito Bay changed human history

  • Marlize Lombard Centre for Anthropological Research & Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Mattias Jakobsson 1 Centre for Anthropological Research & Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa 2 Department of Organismal Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 3 SciLife Lab, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Carina Schlebusch 1 Centre for Anthropological Research & Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa 2 Department of Organismal Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2018/a0253
Keywords: human genome, hunter–gatherer, Homo sapiens, population split-time estimations
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Published
2018-01-30
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Vol 114 No 1/2 (2018): South African Journal of Science
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