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It shows the religious and ethnic communities of Syria just before the French gifted the Sanjak of Alexandretta on the Mediterranean coast to Turkey as a bribe to keep it neutral in World War Two.

“We understand that having kids earlier should mean you have more of them, but the surprising part was just to observe it on the genetic level,” Sanjak said.

“Natural selection is still happening in modern humans – it is observable, we can detect it – but they are fairly weak effects and secular trends, things due to modern medicine and social change, are likely to be bigger drivers of changes in these traits,” said Sanjak.

However Sanjak said there might be more to the findings, pointing out that it is difficult to unpick cause and effect.

Armenian men hanging out outside a small recreation center in Sanjak Camp in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon.