Timing of a Back-Migration into Africa

2007/04/05 by Peter Forster, Valentino Romano · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Forensic and Genetic Research #Race, Genetics, and Society #Indigenous #Out of africa #Geography #Distribution (mathematics) #Mitochondrial DNA #Ethnology #Demography #Biology #Evolutionary biology #History #Genetics #Ecology #Sociology #Gene

paper · doi:10.1126/science.316.5821.50

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Abstract

Indigenous North Africans are genetically quite distinct from sub-Saharan Africans ([1][1]), and this difference is reflected in their lighter skin and European/Middle Eastern physical features. We have previously suggested, on the basis of the distribution of mtDNA type M1, that North Africans are

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