Meghan Rosen
Science News
June 21, 2013
The branches of Europe’s family tree converge remarkably recently in the continent’s history — around the time of the Norman conquest and the Vikings’ transatlantic voyages.
Virtually every person living in Europe today shares a common set of ancestors that lived about 1,000 years ago, Peter Ralph and Graham Coop of the University of California, Davis report May 7 in PLOS Biology.
“What’s really surprising is just how closely related Europeans — and likely all people in the world — are,” Coop says.
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