A new study places the origin of the Imazighen in the Epipaleolithic, more than twenty thousand years ago. The research concludes that the genetic origin of the current Arab population of north Africa is far more recent than previously believed, placing it in the seventh century AD.
Demographics of north African human populations unravelled using genomic data and artificial intelligence The team has designed an innovative demographic model that uses artificial intelligence to analyze the complete genomes of the two populations.
Now, research led by David Comas, a full professor at the UPF Department of Medicine and Life Sciences and principal investigator at theInstitute of Evolutionary Biology , a joint centre of the Spanish National Research Council and the Pompeu Fabra University , and Òscar Lao, also an IBE principal investigator, has discovered, using artificial intelligence tools, that the Imazighen and the Arab people of north Africa have different genetic origins.
"Human remains from about 22,000 years old have been found in Morocco that, according to these results, could be the ancestors of today's Imazighen," says David Comas, a full professor of Anthropology at the MELIS-UPF and a researcher at the IBE.
Thus, this would be the cause of the close genetic relationship between today's Arab populations of north Africa and those of the Middle East.
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