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Subject: [evol-psych] Genes Help Identify Oldest Human Population
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:29:38 +0000
From: Ian Pitchford <ian.pitchford at scientist.com>
Reply-To: Ian Pitchford <ian.pitchford at scientist.com>
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New York Times
January 8, 2002

Genes Help Identify Oldest Human Population
By NICHOLAS WADE

Peering deep into the archive of population history that is stored in
the human
genome, a Stanford University biologist believes he has picked up a
genetic
signature of the ancestral human population.

The signature, a pattern of genetic changes on the male or Y chromosome,
is
apparent in some present- day Ethiopians and in the Khoisan, click
language
speakers who now live in South Africa.

The researcher, Dr. Peter A. Underhill of Stanford University, believes
these
people may include descendants of the ancestral human population that
occupied
the eastern region of Africa in the Paleolithic era.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/science/08ORIG.html



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