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Why does the report stop at the Ural Mountains for Russia?

Updated over 2 weeks ago

The Urals mark the geographic boundary between Europe and Asia, and they're also a real genetic boundary. Populations east of the Urals are part of a different archaeological and genetic story β€” Central Asian and West Siberian prehistory β€” rather than the Eastern European story we're telling here.

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