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"Our findings suggest a remarkable proposition: no matter the languages we speak or the colour of our skin, we share ancestors who planted rice on the banks of the Yangtze, who first domesticated horses on the steppes of Ukraine, who hunted giant sloths in the forests of North and South America, and who laboured to build the Great Pyramid of Khuf... All modern individuals have identical ancestors by about 3,000 B C... our results suggest that the most recent common ancestor for the world’s current population lived in the relatively recent past— perhaps within the last few thousand years. And a few thousand years before that, although we have received genetic material in markedly different proportions from the people alive at the time, the ancestors of everyone on the Earth today were exactly the same..."