What's the origin of the long-ago Swahili civilization? Genes offer a revealing answer

Fishermen land their wooden boats on the beach in Tanzania, one of the countries involved in the genetic analysis of the Swahili people.

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from Africa and abroad.

(Image credit: Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)



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