Ecce Homo — behold mankind

Bernard Wood ()
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Bernard Wood: George Washington University

Nature, 1997, vol. 390, issue 6656, 120-121

Abstract: New molecular markers have provided a wealth of information about the evolution of modern humans, which occurred somewhere between 250,000 and 150,000 years ago. A meeting held last month discussed how short repeated sequences in DNA (Alu inserts and microsatellites) can be used to pinpoint more accurately when modern humans first appeared and when they first emigrated from Africa. It seems that the split between African and non-African populations occurred about 140,000 years ago and that the first 'out of Africa' diaspora may have arrived in Southeast Asia.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/36450

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