> Intriguingly, the Saami of Scandinavia and the Berbers of North Africa were found to share an extremely young branch, aged merely ∼9,000 years. This unexpected finding not only confirms that the Franco-Cantabrian refuge area of southwestern Europe was the source of late-glacial expansions of hunter-gatherers that repopulated northern Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum but also reveals a direct maternal link between those European hunter-gatherer populations and the Berbers.So what were Guanches exactly? WHG + Ancient North African+ ANF + SSA?
>>18656874Iberian farmers reacched around 30%-40% WHG admixture. The Cromagnon genes come from Iberian farmers who crossed Gibraltar and brought the Neolithic into North Africa.
>>18656874Guanches are just Berbers
