The Oldest Khoisa Tribe In The World, Since 150 Thousand Years Ago

The team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and Penn State University USA have managed to find one of the oldest lineages in modern humans through the Khoisa gene sequence. Khoisa is a unifying name for two groups of South African society, this population has physical linguistic characteristics and is suspected to be different from the Bantu culture.

According to Professor Stephan Christoph Schuster, these findings are the first to mention the history of human populations analyzed and adapted to Earth's climatic conditions over the past 200,000 years. The results of this study are published in the journal Nature Communications 4 December 2014 edition. The project involved six NTU researchers and Penn State University. Other participating institutions include Ohio State University and Sao Paulo State University, Brazil.

Prof Schuster will continue to seek and find more non-mixed genetics located in other regions, such as South America and South Asia (including Indonesia) where isolated tribes still exist.