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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] @BBH What do you mean with "Natufian-like"? I think modern Egyptians will always have more of a special affinity with Natufians than living Eurasians because backmigration to Egypt can't really erase the ancient Egyptian ancestry that contributed genes to Natufians. It lessens with more backmigration, sure, but it's still there. This applies even more to the Coptic sample from Sudan, since it seems to lack some recent non-native influences (African and non-African) that living Egyptians have. This is why I thought the Egyptian Coptic immigrant sample from Sudan was important in terms of having more continuity to ancient Egyptians. Egyptians (and possibly also other North Africans) are the only populations that are still relatively close to Natufians despite their recent increase of SSA ancestry. Living Middle Easterners can't get away with that without becoming more distant to proto and early ENF groups from the Levant. Yemenis, for instance, also have substantial SSA ancestry, but they aren't closer to Natufians than living Egyptians are. So that right there tells you that something in living Egyptians has a special affinity with Natufians, though some Egyptian samples have it more than others. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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