Genetic history: Searching for the African roots of Noir Marron communities
(CNRS) Scientists from the Anthropologie Mol é culaire et Imagerie de Synth è se (CNRS/Universit é Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier/Paris Descartes University) and Ecological Anthropology and Ethnobiology (CNRS/MNHN) research units have shown that members of Maroon communities in South America -- formed over four centuries ago by Africans who escaped slavery -- have remarkably preserved their African genetic heritage (98 percent). In contrast, the same cannot be said for African descendants from Brazil and Colombia.
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