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. 2021 May 24;31(10):R489-R490.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.075.

Evolution: On the origin of Basques

Neskuts Izagirre  1 , Santos Alonso  2
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Evolution: On the origin of Basques

Neskuts Izagirre et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

As the only speakers of a non-Indo-European language lacking connections to any other language, the origin and evolution of the Basque population have been topics of interest. A new genomic analysis of Basques shows that they are not a relict Paleolithic population as once thought.

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