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A steppe in the right direction

The authors of a new genomic study propose three distinct latitudinal clines of ancestry among modern Inner Eurasians, each built upon successive layers of admixture.

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Fig. 1: The genomic formation of inner Eurasians.

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Cassidy, L.M. A steppe in the right direction. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 877–878 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0876-4

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