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Saturday, January 9, 2016
Spanish link with ancient Irish human genomes
[Reconstruction of Ballynahatty Neolithic skull by Elizabeth Black. Her
genes tell us she had black hair and brown eyes. Image credit: Barrie
Hartwell.]
" Researchers have sequenced ancient (5,200 to 4,000 years old) Irish
human genomes for the first time and found that they were very similar
to Spanish and Sardinian people."
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