El Mirón Cave Sediment Preserves Genetic Evidence From the Ice Age
An analysis of ancient nuclear DNA provides evidence of long-term population continuity in southwestern Europe.
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Explain what the El Mirón sediment suggests about ancestry and how this evidence differs from analysing one identified skeleton.
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It supports the persistence of ancestry related to earlier western European populations through a cold phase of the Ice Age. The DNA came from sediment, so it provides a different view of cave occupants than DNA from one identified skeleton.
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