Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of
relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 …

Modern Human Origins Page 1 Modern Human Origins Under Close Scrutiny A wealth offossil
andgenetic evidence is being interpreted to imply a recentAfrican originfor modern humans, a …

INTRODUCTION becoming possible now as the number of known postcranial hominin
fossils has swelled. Arsuaga reviews these recent fossil-based discoveries about anatomical …

Schuenemann et al. 1 seemingly suggest, based largely on the results of an ancient DNA
study of later period remains from northern Egypt, that the 'ancient Egyptians'(AE) as an …

Present–day Pacific islanders are thought to be the descendants of Neolithic agriculturalists
who expanded from island South–east Asia several thousand years ago. They speak …

“Anthropological genetics is a synthetic discipline that applies the methods and theories of
genetics to evolutionary questions posed by anthropologists”(Crawford 2007a, p. 1). These …

Abstract The Hadza and Sandawe populations in present-day Tanzania speak languages
containing click sounds and therefore thought to be distantly related to southern African …

Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of
relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 …

Abstract The Comoros Islands are situated off the coast of East Africa, at the northern
entrance of the channel of Mozambique. Contemporary Comoros society displays linguistic …

Recent human-genetics studies have come to different conclusions regarding how and
when modern humans spread out of Africa and into the rest of the world. I present here a …