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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are the Yamna, a Ghost Population?

The yamna are a group of people who lived five thousand years ago north of the black and caspian seas. They were able to take their supplies out into these regions and graze much larger herds than was possible before. These people expanded very dramatically, so in northern europe, more than half the ancestry of many northern parts of europe to day descends from this expansion.

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