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Article: Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation and International Scientific Team Show Prehistoric Foragers from Southeastern Europe Adopted Farming, Weren't Replaced by Middle Eastern Colonizers.
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- December 30, 2008
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New Genetic Study Contradicts Most-Favored View of the Prehistoric Spread of Agriculture into Europe. Pioneering Middle Eastern Agriculturalists Did Not Replace Indigenous Groups in Southeastern Europe. Researchers Analyzed DNA of 1,200 People Living in Greece, Albania, Macedonia and Balkans Region, and Conclude Arrival of Agriculture Didn't Transform Gene Pool, Lifestyle Spread Culturally.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Genetic research by the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF) and scientists from ten organizations in Europe and the U.S. shows human groups with the deepest roots in southeastern Europe were not pushed out by an incoming wave of farmer-colonists ...