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BaYaka hunter-gatherers in Congo playing musical instruments and dancing, which helps them to spread cultural traits and specialized vocabulary between different groups. Credit: Rodolph Schlaepfer, University of Zurich
Recent research, drawing on genetic, archaeological, and paleoenvironmental evidence, indicates that hunter-gatherer populations have inhabited Central Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. However, contemporary hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin now speak languages adopted from their agricultural neighbors, the Bantu, in more recent times.
The project was developed by Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, PhD student and first author. The timing of genetic exchanges between populations can be inferred by tracing the origins of specific genome segments.
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