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  • Ancient fossil in Brazil genetically similar to modern populations

    08/04/2023 9:02:04 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies
    Cosmos magazine ^ | August 1, 2023 | Ellen Phiddian
    Luzio, a 10,000-year-old skeleton from São Paulo, Brazil, has some familiar-looking DNA.He belongs to the same genetic population as all modern-day Indigenous peoples of the Americas...Luzio was previously thought to have possibly belonged to a different, older, population, who settled in modern-day Brazil around 14,000 years ago...“If there was another population here 30,000 years ago, it didn’t leave descendants among these groups.” [sic]The researchers examined the genomes of 34 fossil samples, each at least 10,000 years old, from four different places on the Brazilian coast.Luzio, among them, is the oldest human fossil found in São Paulo State. He’s named after...