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A team of archaeogeneticists sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously uncharacterised population that is neither ancestral to the first European farmers nor has contributed significantly to the ancestry of modern Europeans.

These people are estimated to have separated from Early Neolithic farmers in Anatolia some 46-77,000 years ago and show affinities to modern day Pakistani and Afghan populations, but particularly to Iranian Zoroastrians. The team of researchers (many of which from University College London) conclude that multiple, genetically differentiated hunter gatherer populations adopted farming in SW-Asia, that components of pre-Neolithic population structure were preserved as farming spread into neighbouring regions, and that the Zagros region was the cradle of eastward expansion. 

Ann Gibbons discusses the .

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Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent

Farnaz Broushaki,ÌýMark G Thomas,ÌýVivian Link,Ìý,Ìý,ÌýKarola Kirsanow, Zuzana Hofmanová,Ìý,ÌýLara M. Cassidy,ÌýDavid Díez-del-Molino,ÌýAthanasios Kousathanas,ÌýChristian Sell,ÌýHarry K. Robson,ÌýRui Martiniano,ÌýJens Blöcher,ÌýAmelie Scheu, Susanne Kreutzer,ÌýRuth Bollongino,ÌýDean Bobo,ÌýHossein Davudi,ÌýOlivia Munoz,ÌýMathias Currat,Kamyar Abdi,ÌýFereidoun Biglari,ÌýOliver E. Craig,ÌýDaniel G Bradley,ÌýStephen Shennan,ÌýKrishna R Veeramah,ÌýMarjan Mashkour,ÌýDaniel Wegmann,ÌýGarrett Hellenthal,ÌýJoachim Burger

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