tion betals and modern o multiregionalism.
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te 2000 Nature and otions reported on a Socy-ted t all modern 100,000 years and came from a breeding stock of no more teror of teitute/Massacts Institute of tecer for Genome Researcmodern Europeans, and per tly as 25,000 years ago.”
As legenetic variability—“ty in one social group of fifty-five cire ion,” as one auty it—and this would explain why.
Because ly descended from a small founding population, t been timeenougo provide a source of great variability. It seemed a pretty severebloo multiregionalism. “After tate academic told ton Post,“people be too concerned about tiregional ttleevidence.”
But all of te capacity for surprise offered by t Mungo people of ern Ne tralian National University reported t t ofted at 62,000 years—and t to be“genetically distinct.”
to tomically modern—just like you andme—but carried an extinct genetic lineage. oc s Africa in t past.
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to turn up. Rosalind iongeneticist at titute of Biological Antudying betaglobingenes in modern people, found ts t are common among Asians and tralia, but in Africa. t genes, sain,arose more t in Africa, but in east Asia—long before modern o account for to say t ancestors ofpeople noingly,t gene—to speak—turns up in modern populations inOxfordshire.
Confused, I to see titute, on spent udent days. ralian, from Brisbane originally, at time.
“Don’t kno s be t on moresomberly, “tic record supports t-of-Africa ters, icists prefer not to talk about. ts ofinformation t o us if only and it, but yet.
e’ve barely begun.” So be dra on ence of Asian-origingenes in Oxfordsells us ot tuation is clearly complicated. “All tage is t it is very untidy and really know why.”
At time of our meeting, i