Dogs were the first domesticated animal and often moved alongside people, so ancient dog genomes serve as a proxy for human migration. Here is why sequencing them helps map how people moved.
A team at the Kunming Institute of Zoology integrated 73 ancient dog genomes and found canine lineage shifts tracking the migrations of ancient East Asians and steppe pastoralists—an independent line of evidence for Holocene population history.
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