African admixture in Europe refers to the Eurasian presence of Human genetic polymorphisms, which are considered to be evidence for movements of people from Africa to Eurasia in both the prehistoric and historic past.[1]
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The Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert were formidable barriers to gene flow between Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. But Europe and the Mediterranean were periodically more easily accessible to Africans due to fluctuations in the size and climate of the Sahara. At the Strait of Gibraltar, Africa and Europe are separated by only 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) of water. At the Suez, Eurasia is connected to Africa forming a single land mass. The Nile river valley, which runs from East Africa to the Mediterranean Sea could have served as a bidirectional corridor in the Sahara desert, that allows communication between Sub-Saharan Africa with the peoples of Eurasia.[2]
According to the leading theory of human origins, known as the Out of Africa theory, anatomically modern humans first emerged in Africa 150,000-200,000 years ago. All non-Africans are descended from at least one group of humans who migrated out of Africa into western Asia 50,000-70,000 years ago. The first modern humans in Europe, the Cro-Magnon, arrived from Western Asia and are believed to have completely replaced the previous inhabitants, the Neanderthals. Cro-Magnons were in the Middle East (Lebanon) by 45,000 years ago and in Eastern Europe by 40,000 years ago. By 30,000 years ago, the Cro-Magnon people had populated much of Europe. This was however not the last major human migration into Europe and this paleolithic population was to some extent replaced by later migrations to be discussed below.
During the Last Glacial Maximum, a period between 25,000 and 19,000 years ago, large ice sheets over a kilometer thick covered much of Northern Europe, making the region uninhabitable to humans. It is believed that human populations retreated south to warmer regions near the Mediterranean. Refuges during this period are believed to have been in Iberia, the Balkans and Italy.
DNA evidence suggests that during the Last Glacial Maximum, there was some gene flow from Africa into Iberia. After the Last Glacial Maximum, when the European climate warmed up, the refuges are thought to have been the source from which Europe was repopulated. African lineages that had been introduced into the Iberian refuge would have then dispersed all over Europe with the Northward expansion of humans. This could explain the presence of genetic lineages in Eastern Europe and as far North as Russia, that appear to have prehistoric links to Northwest and West Africa (see mtDNA).[3] The expansion of human populations from Iberian refuges is also believed to have moved back to Northwest Africa.[4]
The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution was a watershed in world history. The societies that first made the change to agriculture are believed to have lived in the Middle East around 10,000 BCE. Agriculture was introduced into Europe by migrating farmers from the Middle East.[5] According to the demic diffusion model, these Middle Eastern farmers either replaced or interbred with the local hunter-gather populations that had been living in Europe since the "out of Africa" migration.[6] It has been suggested that the first Middle Eastern farmers had African influences.[7] There have been suggestions that some genetic lineages found in the Middle East arrived there during this period.[8] The first Agricultural societies in the Middle East are generally thought to have emerged out of the Natufian Culture, which existed in Palestine from 12,000 BCE-10,000 BCE. An important migration from Africa across the Sinai appears to have occurred before the formation of the Natufian.
In historical times, there has been a well-documented period of North African influence in Southern Europe, especially Iberia and Sicily during the time of the Islamic Golden Age. The genetic effect of this period on modern European populations is the subject of discussion (see below). In more recent history, the peoples of Europe and Africa came into contact during the exploration and colonisation of Africa and as a consequence of the Atlantic slave trade.[9] As a result of these recent contacts, lineages of African descent have also been detected in Europe. In general, African admixture is distributed along a South-to-North cline, with peaks in the Mediterranean region and Iberia.
The evolutionary forces that contribute to patterns of human genetic variation include new mutations, natural selection, sexual selection, genetic drift, population bottlenecks, founder effects, isolation by distance, genetic admixture and barriers to gene flow. The most influential factors affecting human genetic variation are founder effects and isolation by distance.[10][11]
Founder effect occurs when a population is established by a small number of individuals who have departed from a much larger population. Several generations after the population has expanded, individuals will still possess the limited gene pool of the founders. Therefore founder effects result in a loss of genetic diversity. Genetic evidence suggests that the out of Africa migration involved only small number of individuals. The African migrants carried a small subset of the prehistoric African genetic diversity, resulting in a founder effect of the Non-African population. As humans spread across the globe populating Eurasia, Australia and the Americas, there were several founder effects. As a result of these serial founder effects, genetic diversity tends to decrease with distance from Africa.[10][11]
The other big factor contributing to patterns of human genetic variation is "Isolation by distance". According to this model populations that live near each other are more likely to exchange mates than populations that live further apart. As a result populations that live near each other are genetically more similar than populations that live far apart.
| Africa | Oceania | East Asia | Europe | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oceania | 24.7 | |||
| East Asia | 20.6 | 10 | ||
| Europe | 16.6 | 13.5 | 9.7 | |
| America | 22.6 | 14.6 | 8.9 | 9.5 |
Genetic distance is a measure used to compare the genetic relationship between populations. It is based on the principle that populations that share similar frequencies of a trait are closer relations than populations that have different frequencies of a trait. The genetic distance between two populations increases linearly with the geographic distance between the two populations due to isolation by distance and serial founder effects.[10][11]Genetic admixture increases the genetic diversity of a population. When admixture occurs between populations, the genetic distance between the two populations is reduced.
Cavalli-Sforza (1997) applied genetic distance measures to various populations around the world to infer phylogenetic relationships (see Table on the right). All non-African populations are more closely related to each other (i.e. short genetic distance) than they are to African populations. This is consistent with a founder effect of the non-African population in that only a few individuals participated in the initial out of Africa migration. The largest genetic distances observed are between Africa and Oceania and between Africa and the Americas. This is consistent with the isolation by distance and serial founder effects.
Cavalli-Sforza (1997) suggests that the genetic distance between Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe is anomalously lower than it should be if the two populations have been evolving independently. The study suggests that the lower genetic distance between Europe and Africa can be explained by genetic admixture.
Generally lineages used to characterize African admixture are those that are specific to Africa. Some DNA polymorphisms are shared by Europeans, West Asians, North Africans and Sub-Saharan Africans. Examples of such variants include the y-chromosomal haplogroup E1b1b and mitochondrial haplogroup M1.[9]
This sharing of polymorphisms is the result of long distance movements of peoples between Sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia that involved traversing North Africa and sometimes the Middle East. Consequently the definitions of "African", "Sub-Saharan African" and "North African" will depend on the time frame of reference or the semantic preferences of any particular scientist. Due to prehistoric migrations in and out of Africa, North African populations tend to exhibit allele frequencies that are intermediate between Sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia.[12][13] Due to this complex genetic profile of Africa, African admixture in Europe could be the result of direct contact with Sub-Saharan Africans or indirectly through contact with North Africans with Sub-Saharan affiliations.
In some cases, lineages found in Africa and Europe may have a common origin in Asia (for example Y haplogroups R1, T) and Haplogroup U. One clade of haplogroup U, U6a1 is known to have expanded from North and East Africa back into Europe .[14][15] Other lineages are known to have moved from Europe directly into Africa (for example mitochondrial haplogroups H1, H3.[4][16] Such back migrations between Africa and Eurasia also complicate defining admixture.
One proposed example of Holocene gene flow from Africa to Europe, via the Middle East, is thought to be E1b1b1, which is thought to have emerged about 22,000 years ago in East Africa and branches of it are thought to have migrated to the Middle East by 11,000 years ago during the late Pleistocene or early Neolithic periods.[8]
Entering the late mesolithic Natufian culture, the E1b1b1a2 (E-V13) sub-clade has been associated with the spread of farming from the Middle East into Europe either during or just before the Neolithic transition. E1b1b1 lineages are found throughout Europe but are distributed along a South-to-North cline, with a E1b1b1a mode in the Balkans.[1][17][18][note 1][note 2]
In separate migrations, E lineages in the form of the E1b1b1b subclade appear to have entered Europe from Northwest Africa into Iberia. In a sample of European males, Cruciani et al. observed Haplogroup E at a frequencies of 7.2%. The timing of this movement has been given widely variant estimates.[19]
A big expansion of peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa occurred after the introduction of agriculture 5,000 years ago. During the Bantu expansion people carrying Haplogroup E(not including E1b1b) lineages dispersed across much of Sub-Saharan Africa from their homeland near the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. The haplogroup most often associated with this expansion is E1b1a, which constitutes up to 48% of the African male gene pool. The presence of E1b1a lineages outside Africa can typically be associated with events that occurred after the Bantu Expansion, such as the trade in African slaves or the Moorish occupation of Iberia. In much of Europe frequencies of E lineages which are not E1b1b are very low, usually less than 1%. For example Cruciani et al. 2004, report such lineages at 2% in Southern Portugal, 4% in Northern Portugal, 2.9% in Istanbul and 4.3% among Turkish Cypriots. E1b1a is closely related to E1b1b, the most frequent clade in Europe. E lineages that are not E1b1a or E1b1b could therefore reflect either a recent expansion associated with E1b1a or ancient population movements associated with E1b1b. For example haplogroup E1a lineages have been detected in Portugal (5/553 = 1%),[20] among Italians in Calabria (1/80=1.3%) and among Albanians in Calabria (2/68=2.9%).[17] According to a study by Goncalves et al. (2005), The distribution of Haplogroup E1a lineages in Portugal was independent of the distribution of the younger and more ubiquitous E1b1a. The authors suggest that this distribution is consistent with a prehistoric migration from Africa to Iberia, possibly alongside mtDNA haplogroup U6.
Haplogroups A and B are thought to have been the predominant haplogroups in Central and Southern Africa prior to the Bantu Expansion. Currently these haplogroups are less common than E lineages. In a sample of 5,000 African men, haplogroup A had a frequency of 5%. Haplogroup A has rare occurrences in Europe but recently the haplogroup was detected in seven males with the same surname who were in Britain.[21]
Haplogroup L lineages are relatively infrequent (1% or less) throughout Europe with the exception of Iberia where frequencies as high as 22% have been reported and some regions of Italy where frequencies as high as 2 to 3% have been found.
In Iberia the mean frequency of Haplogroup L lineages reaches 3.83% and the frequency is higher in Portugal (5.83%) than in Spain (2.9% average) and without parallel in the rest of Europe. In both countries frequencies vary widely between regions with increase frequencies observed for Madeira (Portugal), Southern Portugal, Cordoba (Southern Spain) and North Western Castile (Spain).[22] In the Autonomous regions of Portugal, L haplogroups constituted about 13% of the lineages in Madeira, significantly more than in the Azores[23].. In the Spanish archipelago of Canary Islands, frequencies have been reported at 6.6%.[23] Regarding Iberia, current debates are concerned with whether these lineages are associated with prehistoric migrations, the Islamic occupation of Iberia or the slave trade. Pereira et al. (2000) suggested that African lineages in Iberia were predominantly the result of Atlantic Slave Trade. Gonzalez et al. (2003) revealed that most of the L lineages in Iberia matched Northwest African L lineages rather than contemporary Sub-Saharan L lineages. The authors suggest this pattern indicates that most of the Sub-Saharan L lineages entered Iberia in prehistoric times rather than during the slave trade. According to Pereira et al. (2005), the sub-Saharan lineages found in Iberia matched lineages from diverse regions in Africa. They suggest this pattern is more compatible with recent arrival of these lineages after slave trading began in the 15th century. According to the study, alternative scenarios that invoke much older and demographically more significant introductions (Gonzalez et al. (2003)) or that claim a substantial role of the Roman and/or Islamic periods on the introduction of sub-Saharan lineages seem unlikely. Casas et al. (2006) extracted DNA from human remains that were exhumed from old burial sites in Al-Andalus, Spain. The remains date to between 12th-13th century. The frequency of Sub-Saharan lineages detected in the medieval samples was 14.6% and 8.3% in the present population of Priego de Cordoba. The authors suggest the Muslim occupation and prehistoric migrations before the Muslim occupation would have been the source of these lineages. The highest frequencies of Sub-Saharan lineages found so far in Europe were observed by Alvarez et al. 2010 in the comarca of Sayago (18.2%) which is according to the authors "comparable to that described for the South of Portugal"[24][25] and by Pereira et al. 2010 in Alcacer do Sal (22%).[26]
In Italy, Haplogroup L lineages are present at lower frequencies than Iberia, and only detected in certain regions, such as between 2 and 3% in Latium, Tuscany,[27] Basilicata and Sicily.[28]
In Eastern Europe, Haplogroup L lineages are present at very low frequencies. Though a high diversity of African mtDNA lineages have been detected, few lineages have accumulated enough mutations in Europe to form monophyletic clusters. Malyarchuk et al. (2005) detected only two monophyletic clusters, L1b and L3b in Russians with an estimated age no greater than 6,500 years. Malyarchuk et al. (2008) identified African L1b, L2a, L3b, L3d and M1 clades in Slavic populations at low frequencies. L1b, L3b and L3d had matches with West African populations, indicating that these lineages probably entered Europe through Iberia. One lineage L2a1a, appeared to be much older, indicating that it may have entered Europe in prehistoric times. This clade was possibly related to L2a1 clades identified in ten individuals of Ashkenazi heritage from France, Germany, Poland, Romania and Russia. L2a lineages are widespread throughout Africa, as a result the origins of this lineage are uncertain.[3][29]
Haplogroup M1 is also found in Europe at low frequencies. In a study by Gonzalez et al. 2007, haplogroup M1 had a frequency of 0.3%. The highest frequencies were found in Sicily where 3.8% of the population were members of haplogroup M1. The origins of haplogroup M1 have yet to be conclusively established. One clade of haplgroup M1, M1a is widely accepted to be of East African origin. About 40% of all clades of M1 found in Europe are M1a and consequently of recent East African origin.
| Country | Region | Number tested | Study | % |
| Italy | Latium | 138 | Achilli et al. (2007) | 2.90% |
| Italy | Tuscany | 114 | Achilli et al. (2007) | 2.63% |
| Italy | Basilicata | 92 | Ottoni et al. (2009) | 2.20% |
| Italy | Sicily | 154 | Ottoni et al. (2009) | 2.00% |
| Iberia | South Iberia | 310 | Casas et al. (2006) | 7.40% |
| Spain | All regions | 312 | Alvarez et al. (2007) | 2.90% |
| Spain | 496 | Pereira et al. (2005) | 1.61% | |
| Spain | Galicia | 92 | Pereira et al. (2005) | 3.30% |
| Spain | North East | 118 | Pereira et al. (2005) | 2.54% |
| Spain | Zamora | 214 | Alvarez et al. (2010) | 4.70% |
| Spain | Sayago | 33 | Alvarez et al. (2010) | 18.18% |
| Spain | Cordoba | 108 | Casas et al. (2006) | 8.30% |
| Spain | Catalonia | 101 | Alvarez-Iglesias et al. (2009) | 2.97% |
| Spain | Balearic Islands | 231 | Picornell et al. (2005) | 2.20% |
| Spain | Canary Islands | 300 | Brehm et al. (2003) | 6.60% |
| Portugal | 594 | Achilli et al. (2007) | 6.90% | |
| Portugal | North | 188 | Achilli et al. (2007) | 3.19% |
| Portugal | Center | 203 | Achilli et al. (2007) | 6.40% |
| Portugal | South | 203 | Achilli et al. (2007) | 10.84% |
| Portugal | 549 | Pereira et al. (2005) | 5.83% | |
| Portugal | North | 187 | Pereira et al. (2005) | 3.21% |
| Portugal | Center | 239 | Pereira et al. (2005) | 5.02% |
| Portugal | South | 123 | Pereira et al. (2005) | 11.38% |
| Portugal | North | 100 | Pereira et al. (2010) | 5.00% |
| Portugal | Center | 82 | Pereira et al. (2010) | 9.70% |
| Portugal | South | 59 | Pereira et al. (2010) | 6.80% |
| Portugal | Alcacer do Sal | 50 | Pereira et al. (2010) | 22% |
| Portugal | Coruche | 160 | Pereira et al. (2010) | 8.7% |
| Portugal | Pias | 75 | Pereira et al. (2010) | 3.9% |
| Portugal | Madeira | 155 | Brehm et al. (2003) | 12.90% |
| Portugal | Azores | 179 | Brehm et al. (2003) | 3.40% |
| Cyprus | Cyprus | 91 | Irwin et al. (2008) | 3.30% |
The finding of African ancestry in Southern Europe dating to ~55 generations ago, or ~1,600 years ago assuming 29 years per generation, needs to be placed in historical context. The historical record documents multiple interactions of African and European populations over this period. One potential opportunity for African gene flow was during the period of Roman occupation of North Africa that lasted until the early 5th century AD, and indeed tomb inscriptions and literary references suggest that trade relations continued even after that time. North Africa was also a supplier of goods and products such as wine and olive oil to Italy, Spain and Gaul from 200–600 AD, and Morocco was a major manufacturer of the processed fish sauce condiment, garum, which was imported by Romans. In addition, there was slave trading across the western Sahara during Roman times. Another potential source of some of the African ancestry, especially in Spain and Portugal, is the invasion of Iberia by Moorish armies after 711 AD. If the Moors already had some African ancestry when they arrived in Southern Europe, and then admixed with Iberians, we would expect the admixture date to be older than the date of the invasion, as we observe.—Moorjani et al. 2011
A 2009 autosomal study by Moorjani et al. that used between 500K and 1.5 Million SNPs estimated that the proportion of sub-Saharan African ancestry is 2.4% in Spain, 1.9 % in Greece and 1.5% in Tuscany. According to the authors, this is consistent in the case of Spain, with the historically known movement of individuals of North African ancestry into Iberia, although it is possible that this estimate also reflects a wider range of mixture times.[35] Another study by the same author in 2011[36] that analyzed genome-wide polymorphism data from about 40 West Eurasian groups showed that "almost all Southern Europeans have inherited 1%–3% African ancestry with an average mixture date of around 55 generations ago, consistent with North African gene flow at the end of the Roman Empire and subsequent Arab migrations". According to the authors, application of f4 Ancestry Estimation, a method which produces accurate estimates of ancestry proportions, even in the absence of data from the true ancestral populations,[37] suggests that the "highest proportion of African ancestry in Europe is in Iberia (Portugal 3.2±0.3% and Spain 2.4±0.3%), consistent with inferences based on mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes and the observation by Auton et al. that within Europe, the Southwestern Europeans have the highest haplotype-sharing with Africans". The authors found the following West African admixture proportions in Europe using f4 Ancestry Estimation :
| Population | West African (>1%°) |
| Portugal | 3.2% |
| Sardinian | 0% [38][39] |
| Southern Italy | 2.7% |
| Spain | 2.4% |
| Northern Italy | 1.1% |
One of the most convincing evidences of gene flow from Africa is the A30-B18-DR3 haplotype, this or component haplotypes reaches a peak frequency in Sardinia with components of ~20%. Three independent studies conclude this haplotype is paleo North African in origin.[40][41] Several HLA haplotypes and alleles that appear to be of recent Africa origin are found in Europe with frequencies declining from SW to north east similar to A30-B18-DR3.[42] A number of other alleles including, Cw*0501, Cw*0701 and Cw*1601 appear restricted to European and African populations. This pattern has been described as being suggestive of a close historical relationship between Europeans and Africans.[43]
Further studies have shown the presence of haplotype GM*1,17 23' 5* in southern Europe. This haplotype is considered a genetic marker of subSaharan Africa, where it shows frequencies of about 80%.[44] Whereas in non-Mediterranean European populations that value is about 0.3%, in Spain the average figure for this African haplotype is nearly eight times greater(though still low levels) at 2.4% and it shows a peak at 4.5% in Galicia.[45] Values of around 4% have also been found in Huelva, in the Aran valley in the Pyrenees[46] and the large islands of Sicily (ranging from 1.56% at Valledolmo to 5.5% at Alia), Corsica and Sardinia.[47] According to Calderon et al. 2007, although some researchers have associated African traces in Iberia to Islamic invasions, the presence of GM*1,17 23' 5* haplotype in Iberia may in fact be due to more ancient processes as well as more recent ones through the introduction of genes from black slaves from Africa.[45]
Sickle cell genes of African origin have been detected in Europe, mostly in the Mediterranean region. The sickle cell trait is associated with resistance to malaria. Individuals with one copy of the sickle cell gene, heterozygotes, have higher resistance to malaria than individuals with no sickle cell genes. In regions affected by malaria, the fertility of sickle cell heterozygotes will be higher than average. Individuals with two copies of the sickle cell gene, homozygotes, will be affected by sickle cell disease and historically have had lower than average fertility. The sickle cell trait is thus an example of heterozygote advantage which is subject to balancing selection. When the sickle cell trait is introduced into a region affected by malaria, balancing selection will on one hand act to increase the frequency of the trait to counter malaria. On the other hand if the frequency of the trait in the population becomes high enough so that homozygotes with sickle cell disease become common, balancing selection will act to limit the spread of the trait. Therefore in regions affected by malaria, the sickle cell trait is maintained at intermediate frequencies relative to the incidence of malaria.
In Africa, malaria is believed to be one of the most important factors that contributed to restricting population growth in prehistoric times. Sickle cell mutations are believed to have occurred independently at least five times. Four variants are of African origin and one of Indian/Arabian origin. The African variants are referred to as Cameroon, Senegal, Benin and Bantu. The emergence of the sickle cell trait would have contributed to population expansion, with the emergence of farming into tropical regions where malaria was endemic.
Archeological and historical evidence suggest that the malaria had been endemic in the Mediterranean regions of Europe in historical times.[48] In Eastern Mediterranean regions, such as Italy, Greece, Albania and Turkey the Benin haplotype is the most frequent sickle cell variant. The Benin haplotype is also the most frequent variant in the Middle East and has been observed in Syrians, Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, Israeli Jews[49] and Western Saudi Arabians. This suggests that the Benin haplotype may have expanded from West Africa into North Africa and then into the Middle East and Europe. The spread of the Benin haplotype to the Mediterranean region has been associated with various events including Late Stone Age expansions from West Africa into North Africa, the trans-Saharan trade and the Arab Slave Trade.[50] The occurrence of sickle cell trait is particularly high in Sicily where frequencies of 13% have been reported.[51][52] In New York City, Sicilian Americans are second to African Americans in occurrence of Sickle cell disease. The high frequencies of the trait have been associated with the Arab invasion of Sicily in the 7th Century during which Sudanese soldiers were recruited by the Caliphate.[50] Portugal is the only region in Europe where the Senegal and Bantu haplotypes are frequent. These may be associated with Portuguese naval exploits, including the Atlantic Slave Trade and the colonization of various African countries.[53]
In Europe, the highest prevalence of the disease has been observed in France as a result of population growth in African-Caribbean regions of overseas France, and now immigration essentially from North and sub-Saharan Africa to mainland France.[54] SCD has become the most common genetic disease in this country. In 2007, 28.45% of all newborns in mainland France in 2007 had at least one parent originated from a region defined "at risk" (mainly Africa and Overseas departments and territories of France) and were screened for SCD. The Paris metropolitan district (Île-de-France) is the region that accounts for the largest number of at-risk. Indeed, nearly 56% of all newborns in this area in 2007 had at least one parent originated from a region defined as "at-risk" and were screened for SCD. The second largest number of at-risk is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur at nearly 42% and the lowest number is in Brittany at 4.40%.[55]
The migration of farmers from the Middle East into Europe is believed to have significantly influenced the genetic profile of contemporary Europeans. Some recent studies have focused on corroborating current genetic data with the archeological evidence from Europe, the Middle East and Africa.[19] The Natufian culture which existed about 12,000 years ago in Palestine, has been the subject of various archeological investigations as the Natufian culture is generally believed to be the source of the European and North African Neolithic.
According to a hypothesis stated by Bar-Yosef (1987), Natufian culture emerged from the mixing of two stone age cultures: (1) the Kebaran, a culture indigenous to the Levant and (2) the Mushabian, a culture introduced into the Levant from North Africa. This Mushabian culture is suggested to have originated in Africa as archeological sites with Mushabian industries in the Nile Valley predate those in the Levant. The Mushabians would have then moved into the Sinai from the Nile Delta bringing with them their technologies. Bar-Yosef (1987) states: "the population overflow from Northeast Africa played a definite role in the establishment of the Natufian adaptation, which in turn led to the emergence of agriculture as a new subsistence system".
A study by Brace et al. (2005) analysed human remains from the Natufian culture. According to the study, there is evidence of Sub-Saharan influences in the Natufian samples. They argue that these influences would have been diluted by the interbreeding of the Neolithic farmers from the Near East with the indigenous foragers in Europe. Ricaut et al. (2008) associate the Sub-Saharan influences detected in the Natufian samples with the migration of E1b1b lineages from East Africa to the Levant and then into Europe.
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