Europe may be called the Old Continent, but its current population has a rather recent origin. And a new research published in the journal "Nature" shows that white European people are less genetically diverse, carrying more harmful mutations, than the black Africans.
The results point that a population "bottleneck" could have been involved in the original colonization of Europe or the evolution of the white race. Population bottleneck means that the size of a population plummets to several ...
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