Genetic data show mainly men migrated from the Pontic steppe to Europe 5,000 years ago

Genetic data show mainly men migrated from the Pontic steppe to Europe 5,000 years ago

The great migration that brought farming practices to Europe 4,000 years earlier, on the other hand, consisted of both women and men. The difference in sex bias suggests that different social and cultural processes drove the two migrations. Genetic data suggest that modern European ancestry represents a mosaic of ancestral contributions from multiple waves of prehistoric migration events.

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