On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:28:19AM +1300, LizR wrote: > I didn't realise there was still much doubt about this. I thought studying > human DNA had made the out of Africa hypothesis fairly robust. (Obviously > more confirming evidence will add another sigma, or whatever...) >
There is some evidence of interbreeding between the H. sapiens that migrated from Africa, and the indigenous Neanderthal and Denisovan species. IIRC, the indigineous species contributed something like 10% of the genetic code to the humans from those areas - N to Europeans, and D to some island populations off Asia. So its not quite Out of Africa exlusively, more like mostly "Out of Africa", with a small dash of "Multiregionalism". But its fascinating what we've learnt just in the last decade. When my son asked me (for a science assignment) to name a significant scientific technology, I immediately said "PCR"! Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
