
Mauro Coltorti
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Characterizing genetic diversity in Africa is a crucial step for most analyses
reconstructing the evolutionary history of anatomically modern humans. However,
historic migrations from Eurasia into Africa have affected many contemporary
populations, confounding inferences. Here, we present a 12.5× coverage ancient genome of an Ethiopian male (“Mota”) who lived approximately 4500 years ago. We use this genome to demonstrate that the Eurasian backflow into Africa came from a population closely related to Early Neolithic farmers, who had colonized Europe 4000 years earlier.