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The genetic origins of the world's first farmers clarified

Posted: 12 May 2022 09:18 AM PDT

The genetic origins of the first agriculturalists in the Neolithic period long seemed to lie in the Near East. A new study shows that the first farmers actually represented a mixture of Ice Age hunter-gatherer groups, spread from the Near East all the way to south-eastern Europe.