The history of human populations in Africa is complex and includes various demographic events that influenced patterns of genetic variation across the continent. Through genetic studies of modern-day, and most recently, ancient African genetic variation, it became evident that deep African history is captured by the relationships among hunter-gatherers. Furthermore, it was shown that agriculture had a large influence on the distribution of current-day Africans. These later population movements changed the demographic face of the continent and descendants of farming groups today form the majority populations across Africa. Ancient DNA methods are continually evolving, and we see evidence of this in how research has advanced in the last decade. With the increased availability of full genomic data from diverse sets of modern-day and prehistoric Africans we now have more power to infer human demography. Future ancient DNA research promises to reveal more detailed stories of human prehistory in Africa.

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非洲人口史：古老的 DNA 视角。

非洲人口的历史很复杂，包括影响整个非洲大陆遗传变异模式的各种人口统计事件。通过对现代和最近的古代非洲遗传变异的遗传研究，很明显，狩猎采集者之间的关系记录了非洲的深厚历史。此外，还表明农业对当今非洲人的分布有很大影响。这些后来的人口流动改变了非洲大陆的人口面貌，今天农业群体的后代构成了非洲的主要人口。古代 DNA 方法在不断发展，我们在过去十年的研究进展中看到了这一点的证据。随着来自现代和史前非洲人的不同组的完整基因组数据的可用性增加，我们现在有更多的能力来推断人类人口统计学。未来的古代 DNA 研究有望揭示非洲人类史前史的更详细故事。