The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, November 2023

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….in no way is my logic anything similar to saying stop...

User Prestigious-Pace1500, in the HistoryMemes subreddit, 01 Sep 2026

….in no way is my logic anything similar to saying stop using Chinese. What??! Where tf did you get that 😭 I’m sorry to tell…

Are you trolling? You realize you’re on a genetics forum?...

User NotBradPitt9, in the DNA Ancestry: Genetics Questions and Answers subreddit, 11 Jun 2026

Are you trolling? You realize you’re on a genetics forum? Scientific studies like the following have the Bantu genetic grouping…

Ok. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s a genetic group...

User NotBradPitt9, in the DNA Ancestry: Genetics Questions and Answers subreddit, 11 Jun 2026

Ok. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s a genetic group which spread throughout most of Southern / Central Africa via the…

Bantu is an ethnolinguistic term that’s commonly used in...

User NotBradPitt9, in the DNA Ancestry: Genetics Questions and Answers subreddit, 11 Jun 2026

Bantu is an ethnolinguistic term that’s commonly used in modern scientific studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu\_peoples…

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