A new study published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution provides more support for the hypothesis that modern Japanese are an admixed population between the Jomon and the Yayoi people. A photograph of a Japanese samurai taken by Felice Beato in 1867. According to this hypothesis, called the ‘hybridization hypothesis,’ Neolithic hunter-gatherers known as Jomon, who are assumed to have originated in southeast Asia and lived in the Japanese...
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