New research pinpoints origins of humans in Africa

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to add: they did a lot of wandering too!

Edited May 4, 2009 by Mister_Bill

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My wife and I took part in the National Geographics Genographic Project.

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/...phic/index.html

It was free for us because we stumbled on a booth at a street fair in Astoria NYC where they were taking DNA swabs. They have studies thousands of samples and traced them back to africa from Native Americans, Asians, Europeans etc. They did a big reveal for all those that took part in the Astoria testing because Astoria is such a diverse neighborhood. It was interesting to see the migratory path my ancestors took out of africa.

Anyone can take part but the kits cost $100.

I wonder how well that works for us American mongrels. I know my ancestors have been wondering around the New World for at least three centuries, and the tree does a lot of forking, even throughout Europe.

The main part of the study has been focused on indiginous populations that are know for relative isolation For example many African Tribes, Australian Aboriginies and Native Americans.

I guess they have built up patterns in mitachondrial DNA throughout the study and from what they already know from fossil records. The African Americans from the study were obviously all more recently from africa, the Europeans all had a mix of results. Mine came throught the middle east and up to northern Europe and scandenavia. Not really surprising as I am English through and through. My dad has a family tree stretching back 500 years.