( 37, 000 Year Old European Genome) Present Day Europeans Are Identical To The

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Scientists have sequenced a 37,000-year-old European genome. The results show that
present-day Europeans are the closest living relatives to the first people in
Europe. The genome also indicates that many European traits, including those from
the Middle East, were already present in the first Europeans. The study, which was
recently published in Science, sheds entirely new light on who we are as Europeans,
which was originally a separate species from African lineages.

It turns out that Scandinavians, Balts and Slavs are more closely related to the
Kostenki man than any other now-living population. This means that northern
Europeans are the earliest Europeans.
Scientists have sequenced a 37,000-year-old genome. The results show that present-
day Europeans are the closest living relatives to the first people in Europe.
An international team of scientists have sequenced the genome of a 37,000-year-old
male skeleton found in Kostenki in Russia.

The study, which was recently published in Science, sheds entirely new light on who
we are as Europeans. "From a genetic point of view he's an European," says
Professor Eske Willerslev, Director of the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University
of Copenhagen, who was involved in the new study, and adds:

�Actually, he is closer to Danes, Swedes, Finns and Russians than to Frenchmen,

Spaniards and Germans�.
Split happened within a 8.000 year gap

The new results reveal that the man is the oldest that we know of so far to
genetically represent a separate line from the forebears of present-day Asians.
This is decisive when it comes to dating one of the most important events in
history.

"We can now date the separation time between Asians and Europeans."

He points out that the Kostenki genome sets a line 37,000 years ago. Here the lines
must have split, while the 45,000-year-old genome from the recently discovered Ust'
Ishim in Siberia sets the limit in the other direction.

This gives the answer to one of the biggest questions in the history of mankind;
scientists now know that it is within the 8000 year gap that Europeans and Asians
went their separate ways.
Meta-population: sex across populations

Previously the impression was that our forebears lived in separate populations and
had children within the group, instead, Willerslev now paints a very different
picture consisting of one large meta-population.

A meta-population consists of several populations which mate with each other.

The meta-population is connected through the neighbour's neighbours, consisting of

people who generally resemble each other a lot, but who also have their own unique
traits.
"It was a huge, complex network, and not separate branches that lived in
isolation,� says Willerslev.

He believes the Europeans must have been one enormous meta-population stretching
across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.

An international team of scientists have sequenced the genome of a 37,000-year-old

male skeleton found in Kostenki in Russia.

The study, which was recently published in Science, sheds entirely new light on who
we are as Europeans.

"From a genetic point of view he's an European," says Professor Eske Willerslev,
Director of the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, who was
involved in the new study, and adds:
�Actually, he is closer to Danes, Swedes, Finns and Russians than to Frenchmen,
Spaniards and Germans�.
Split happened within a 8.000 year gap

The new results reveal that the man is the oldest that we know of so far to
genetically represent a separate line from the forebears of present-day Asians.
This is decisive when it comes to dating one of the most important events in
history.
"We can now date the separation time between Asians and Europeans," says Professor
Rasmus Nielsen from the University of Copenhagen and the University of California,
Berkeley, who was also involved in the study.

He points out that the Kostenki genome sets a line 37,000 years ago. Here the lines
must have split, while the 45,000-year-old genome from the recently discovered Ust'
Ishim in Siberia sets the limit in the other direction.

This gives the answer to one of the biggest questions in the history of mankind;
scientists now know that it is within the 8000 year gap that Europeans and Asians
went their separate ways.
Meta-population: sex across populations

He believes the Europeans must have been one enormous meta-population stretching
across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. It is possible to follow the
genetic trail; all the way from the Kostenki genome, to hunter-gatherers in Siberia
25,000 years ago and farmers 7-8000 years ago in Spain, Luxembourg and Sweden, up
to present-day Europeans.