Despite their diversity, pygmies of Western Central Africa share recent common ancestors
Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 12:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Despite the great cultural, physical, and genetic diversity found amongst the numerous West Central African human populations that are collectively designated as "Pygmies," a report published online on February 5th in Current Biology finds that they diverged from a single ancestral population just about 2,800 years ago.