Oldest Genome from Wallacea Shows Previously Unknown Ancient Human Relations

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The oldest genome of a modern human from the Wallacea region – the islands between western Indonesia and Papua New Guinea – indicates a previously undescribed ancient human relationship. The international study was accomplished through close collaboration with several researchers and institutions from Indonesia. It was headed by Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) and the Science of Human History (Jena), Cosimo Posth of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, and Adam Brumm of Griffith University, Australia.

Publication: Selina Carlhoff, et al., Genome of a middle Holocene hunter-gatherer from Wallacea, Nature (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03823-6

Original Story Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology