Ever since two hikers happened upon the mummified body of Ötzi the Iceman on a high mountain pass in the Ötzal Alps in 1991, scientists have been working to figure out who he was and where he came from… for the article:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/28/icemans-genome-furnishes-clues-to-his-ailments-and-ancestry/?print=true
Who's ancestor is he??
Ötzi the Iceman and the Sardinians
Well, the paper is finally out, New insights into the Tyrolean Iceman’s origin and phenotype as inferred by whole-genome sequencing. In case you don’t know, Ötzi the Iceman died 5,300 years ago in the alpine region bordering Austria and Italy…
Even more on this subject:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/02/otzi-the-iceman-and-the-sardinians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GeneExpressionBlog+%28Gene+Expression%29
Genetics and Genealogy:
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