The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
29 Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 03 04 2023
accepted: 20 10 2023
pubmed: 30 11 2023
medline: 30 11 2023
entrez: 29 11 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The expansion of people speaking Bantu languages is the most dramatic demographic event in Late Holocene Africa and fundamentally reshaped the linguistic, cultural and biological landscape of the continent

Identifiants

pubmed: 38030719
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06770-6
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06770-6
doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Cesar A Fortes-Lima (CA)

Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Concetta Burgarella (C)

Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
AGAP Institut, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France.

Rickard Hammarén (R)

Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Anders Eriksson (A)

cGEM, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.

Mário Vicente (M)

Centre for Palaeogenetics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Cecile Jolly (C)

Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Armando Semo (A)

CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal.
BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal.
Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Hilde Gunnink (H)

UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent), Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Sara Pacchiarotti (S)

UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent), Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Leon Mundeke (L)

University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Igor Matonda (I)

University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Joseph Koni Muluwa (JK)

Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Kikwit, Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Peter Coutros (P)

UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent), Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Terry S Nyambe (TS)

Livingstone Museum, Livingstone, Zambia.

Justin Cirhuza Cikomola (JC)

Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Vinet Coetzee (V)

Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Minique de Castro (M)

Biotechnology Platform, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, Pretoria, South Africa.

Peter Ebbesen (P)

Department of Health Science and Technology, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark.

Joris Delanghe (J)

Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Mark Stoneking (M)

Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France.

Lawrence Barham (L)

Department of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Marlize Lombard (M)

Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Anja Meyer (A)

Human Variation and Identification Research Unit, School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Maryna Steyn (M)

Human Variation and Identification Research Unit, School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Helena Malmström (H)

Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Jorge Rocha (J)

CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal.
BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal.
Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Himla Soodyall (H)

Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Academy of Science of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

Brigitte Pakendorf (B)

Dynamique Du Langage, UMR5596, CNRS & Université de Lyon, Lyon, France.

Koen Bostoen (K)

UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent), Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Carina M Schlebusch (CM)

Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. carina.schlebusch@ebc.uu.se.
Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. carina.schlebusch@ebc.uu.se.
SciLifeLab, Uppsala, Sweden. carina.schlebusch@ebc.uu.se.

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