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- noun Plural form of
Khoisan .
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I'll admit, the first people were the Khoisans which is pretty much fact.
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If large numbers of Bantu and Khoisans were showing up in Canada, I imagine the categories would evolve to show it.
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There's at least as much distinction between Bantu and Khoisans as there is between Japanese and Chinese.
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Khoisans lack some key adaptations that arose in Africans who have taken up agriculture.
Discover Blogs 2010
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Understanding the genome of Khoisans is not just interesting in itself, but important to the well-being of all people on Earth.
Discover Blogs 2010
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This is probably because Khoisans were among the earliest human populations to form and they have not interbred much with other groups, says project leader
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This is probably because Khoisans were among the earliest human populations to form and they have not interbred much with other groups, says project leader
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On average, each pair of the Khoisans differed at 1.2 out of every 1000 nucleotides
Discover Blogs 2010
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But these absences don't mean that Khoisans are primitive cavemen, or that their genomes are a time capsule from antiquity.
Discover Blogs 2010
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The survey confirmed the conclusion of earlier studies: Khoisans have a lot of genetic diversity.
Discover Blogs 2010
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