Khoisan hunter-gatherers have been the largest population throughout most of modern-human demographic history

• Main Authors: Kim, Hie Lim, Ratan, Aakrosh, Perry, George H., Montenegro, Alvaro, Miller, Webb, Schuster, Stephan C.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Genomics; Population Genetics; DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89544; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46318
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Khoisan people from Southern Africa maintained ancient lifestyles as hunter-gatherers or pastoralists up to modern times, though little else is known about their early history. Here we infer early demographic histories of modern humans using whole-genome sequences of five Khoisan individuals and...