Friday, April 25, 2008

Diversity in human mtDNA

Some news sites carrying stories on the following study:
http://www.ajhg.org/AJHG/abstract/S0002-9297(08)00255-3
What I find interesting is that, if their dates are correct, by the time humans had spread thorughout the world and established populations in Australia, the southern african lineages now known as the Khoi and San people (AKA Bushmen) had been isolated from other human populations for possibly tens of thousands of years.

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