Scandinavians Are Descended from Stone Age Immigrants

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• Today's Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but from a population that arrived later. This is one conclusion of a new study straddling the borderline between genetics and archeology
  
• The study involved using DNA from Stone Age remains that were spread by immigrants or represented innovations on the part of hunter-gatherers.
• "Our findings show that today's Scandinavians are not the direct descendants of the hunter-gatherers who lived in the region during the Stone Age"
• "This entails the conclusion that some of migration to Scandinavia took place, probably at the onset of the agricultural Stone Age"

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"Scandinavians Are Descended from Stone Age Immigrants." PhysOrg.com - Science News, Technology, Physics, Nanotechnology, Space Science, Earth Science, Medicine. 24 Sept. 2009. Web. 04 May 2010. http://www.physorg.com/news173022084.html.