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Genome-wide variation in the Angolan Namib Desert reveals unique pre-Bantu ancestry.
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- Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing.Evolutionary human sciences · 2025Article
- AncestryPainter 2.0: Visualizing Ancestry Composition and Admixture History Graph.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups.Nature communications · 2024Article
- African bushpigs exhibit porous species boundaries and appeared in Madagascar concurrently with human arrival.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Oral microbiome homogeneity across diverse human groups from southern Africa: first results from southwestern Angola and Zimbabwe.BMC microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Ancient DNA studies reveal the genetic structure of Africa before the expansion of Bantu-speaking agriculturalists; however, the impact of now extinct hunter-gatherer and herder societies on the genetic makeup of present-day African groups remains elusive. Here, we uncover the genetic legacy of pre-Bantu populations from the Angolan Namib Desert, where we located small-scale groups associated with enigmatic forager traditions, as well as the last speakers of the Khoe-Kwadi family's Kwadi branch. By applying an ancestry decomposition approach to genome-wide data from these and other African populations, we reconstructed the fine-scale histories of contact emerging from the migration of Khoe-Kwadi-speaking pastoralists and identified a deeply divergent ancestry, which is exclusively shared between groups from the Angolan Namib and adjacent areas of Namibia. The unique genetic heritage of the Namib peoples shows how modern DNA research targeting understudied regions of high ethnolinguistic diversity can complement ancient DNA studies in probing the deep genetic structure of the African continent.
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