By Andi Thomaj
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Forty-two Jomon genomes reveal an Ice Age survival toolkit in eastern Eurasia
A new Science Advances study sequences the largest Jomon dataset yet: where Japan's ancient foragers came from, the cold-adaptation selection written in their genomes, and what their legacy means for reading Japanese ancestry.
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