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Summary Of: Khoisan

The Khoisan people were the original inhabitants of much of southern Africa before the southward... Over the centuries the many branches of the Khoisan peoples were absorbed or displaced by Bantu speaking societies who were migrating south in search... who both have adopted some Khoisan clicks and loan words into their respective languages... The Khoisan survived in the desert or in areas with winter rains which were not suitable for... is today present in various Khoisan groups at frequencies of 12... The Khoisan also show the largest... genes finds that the Khoisan are similar to other sub... One interpretation is that the Khoisan are the earliest... and that the ancestors of the Khoisan avoided these particular bottlenecks... This does not show that the Khoisan were particularly isolated through history and prehistory...

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