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A view of modern human origins from Y chromosome microsatellite variation.
Genome research - 1 Jun 1999
Seielstad M, Bekele E, Ibrahim M, Touré A, Traoré M
Abstract excerpt
The idea that all modern humans share a recent (within the last 150, 000 years) African origin has been proposed and supported on the basis of three observations. Most genetic loci examined to date have (1) shown greater diversity in African populations than in others, (2) placed the first branch between African and all non-African populations in phylogenetic trees, and (3) indicated recent dates for either the...
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